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WTA about joke shops

nwk — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 23:41:02 +0800

Are there any joke shops in PJ or KL that sell something that have a rotten egg smell? Just curious.

Warhammer 40k: Space Marine (PS3)

nwk — Thu, 28 May 2009 19:35:08 +0800

Relic Entertainment has announced Warhammer 40k: Space Marine for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

According to Relic, Space Marine has been developed specifically with home consoles in mind, with the studio having created a separate, console-focused team especially for the game’s development. In addition, the title will be built utilizing Relic’s new proprietary engine, allowing for the types of visuals and large scales battles that fans of the Warhammer series have become accustomed to.

Details on Space Marine's storyline and gameplay are still scarce at the time of writing.

Source

This is friggin great! I have been waiting for Relic to make a Warhammer 40K game for consoles and now it seems my wish will be coming true! Definately going to get this game on day 1 of release.

Sacred 2 : Fallen Angel (PS3)

nwk — Sun, 17 May 2009 01:14:18 +0800

Sacred 2 is the sequel to the (PC exclusive) Sacred 1 which released in 2004. The game didn't claim to be anything other than a Diablo clone and it did that job very well (scoring 82 in PC gamer). Sacred 2 has now moved from sprites to polygons and is now a next-gen multiplatform release.

FAQs:
• HUGE World, everything streams (no loading)
• SIX Classes/Characters (Seraphim, Shadow Warrior, High Elf among others)
• 500+ Quests
• Mounted combat (Horse, Tiger, Hellhound..etc)
• 4 players Online, 2 players Offline

Screens:

Characters:

i just got this game from alex today, and i find it to be very good. the shadow warrior especially is very fun to play since he can summon your dead enemies back to life to aid you in your fight. Online game play is quite ok and there was no disconnections on my sessions. the world map is really really huge. there were not kidding when they said it was huge and it's open world gameplay. you can do the quests in any order you want. if you were frustrated with demon's soul and if you like diablo, i highly recommend this game because unlike demon's soul you won't die fast and be frustrated until you throw your controller out the window.

AFRO Samurai (PS3)

nwk — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 19:52:28 +0800

Just got this game from Alex and IMO it's cool. If you are a fan of the Afro Samurai anime, then you will have a blast playing this game. The graphics are cell shaded and there's plenty of violence with body parts getting chopped off and blood splatter everyone. Oh did I forget to mention, that Samuel L Jackson, is doing the voice acting for this game? Oh there's also naked women in this game too! Even if you are not a fan of the Gonzo produced anime, but like ridiculous amounts of bloody violence in your game, then you will like this game. I know I did. The story follows the first anime series closely and fans who are familiar with the series will be pleased. For those who are not familiar, the story is about Afro's quest for revenge to get the No. 1 headband that was taken from his father. It is said that whoever wears the No. 1 headband has the powers of a god and is almost indestructible.

This is game is R1 only and I got it from Alex for RM215. It also comes with a nice sleeve which normally is found in BD movies but not in games.

X-Edge (PS3)

nwk — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 01:35:20 +0800

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NIS America made it sound quite impossible at one point for the multi-licensed title X-Edge to come stateside. However, going against what many expected to never happen, NISA has announced that X-Edge will be coming to North America come March 2009. The trouble with a title like this, is all of the licensing issues that have to be handled prior to release. Fortunately, it looks as though those troubles are non-existent.

"X-Edge is an interesting project since it's a collaboration between 3 different companies. It's pretty funny to see a little Prinny fight characters from Darkstalkers like Morrigan and Demitri.

"The release date isn't finalized yet, but it's going to be in March 09. "

While this is a niche title, we're sure some of you will be pleased to find out this information.

Another JRPG in English for PS3 coming soon in March 2009. Keep a look out for this one guys. I know I will.
Source:PSU

Valkyria Chronicles

nwk — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:30:35 +0800

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Sega has staple-gunned a release date to its fancy cell-shaded PlayStation 3 RPG Valkyria Chronicles, as reported by VG247. You'll be able to get your (North American) teeth into this feast of picturesque strategic action on November 14, with a demo hitting the PlayStation Network on October 9.

The official site is now live too, though Sega hasn't provided a URL and we're jiggered if we can find the thing. Apparently a new gameplay trailer will debut there today, so keep those peepers open. Here's a link to the product page to get you going.

As in Eternal Sonata, combat in Valkyria Chronicles is a mix of turn-based and real-time systems. The plot and setting are loosely inspired by 1930s Europe, albeit with rather more in the way of mini-skirts and stylised hair-dos.

source: PSU

Error with message tracker

nwk — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:28:29 +0800

Whenever I try to delete a message that I am tracking, I get this error message:

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There appears to be an error with the database.
You can try to refresh the page by clicking here.

Error Returned

mySQL query error: SELECT SQL_NO_CACHE mt_id, mt_msg_id, mt_from_id, mt_to_id, mt_owner_id, mt_vid_folder, mt_sender_deleted FROM ibf_message_topics WHERE mt_read=0 and mt_tracking=1 AND mt_from_id=76608 mt_id IN (9613114)

mySQL error: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'mt_id IN (9613114)' at line 1
mySQL error code:
Date: Thursday 02nd 2008f October 2008 05:26:05 PM

We apologise for any inconvenience

Please fix this bug ASAP!

[addedon]October 2, 2008, 5:38 pm[/addedon]I didn't know somebody already reported this. closing thread.

Eternal Sonata (PS3)

nwk — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 20:48:38 +0800

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According to a Namco Bandai newsletter, the beautifully animated RPG title Eternal Sonata will be coming to the PlayStation 3 on October 21.

For those of you who have played the game on the Xbox 360, there are several reasons why Eternal Sonata may be worth taking another look at on the PS3. For example, the PS3 version will include new characters (Crescendo and Seranade), extra cutscenes, new costumes, additional quests, and new music.

Keep an eye out for Eternal Sonata when it ships later next month.

source: PSU Universe

The game will have English and Japanese voices according to this letter from Namco Bandai America:

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Thank you for contacting NAMCO BANDAI Games America Inc.'s Customer Support Department.

Yes, just like the North American release of Eternal Sonata for the Xbox 360, our North American release for the PS3 will feature both English and Japanese voiceovers.

Please feel free to contact us again in the future as the need arises.

Geoff Tuttle
Customer Support Representative

NAMCO BANDAI Games America Inc.

I am so going to get this game when it's finally released. Lets hope we get more JRPGs games in the near future.

TSB staff not honest

nwk — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 13:21:50 +0800

yesterday i went to TSB (software boutique) to buy an ori game. after discount, the lady there said the price was RM135 and so i paid without checking the receipt. As i was walking out the door, i took a look at the receipt and saw the price was actually RM134. So i walked back in and told the lady that i paid her RM1 extra. But she insisted, i paid her RM134. I kept on insisting I paid her RM135 and after a few minutes of arguing with me, she reluctantly paid me back RM1.

RM1 also they want to cheat you. She never even bothered to say sorry. How rude and dishonest this ori shop is. Like that I might as well go and buy from the pirates! It's not that I am hadap for RM1 but I don't like to be cheated by people like that lady. I advise anyone who goes there in the future to check their receipts properly before they add in another RM1 or RM10 to the actual amount you are suppose to pay. No wonder their branch in Ikano was closed down.

Warhammer : Mark of Chaos

nwk — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 22:36:33 +0800

I just want some opinion on Warhammer : Mark of Chaos. I read on the internet about this game and almost everyone says it is a terrible game and you will waste your money if you buy it. Is this true? Is this game so bad? What do you guys think?

[addedon]April 14, 2007, 1:11 pm[/addedon]i just found out from a friend who bought the ori and he told me this games sucks so bad, that playing space invaders will be more worth your time. he also said the stupid ori package did not even come with a manual inside the box. instead they give you a lousy cd-rom with a pdf file and expect you to print your own manual!!!! 10 thumbs down!!!

Choppy sound with Battlefield 2142

nwk — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 03:19:07 +0800

My rig is a P4 3 Gig CPU, NVIDEA GeForce 6800 with 512K RAM and I am getting choppy sound when I play Battlefield 2142. My soundcard is a Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live! 24-Bit. When I set the audio setting to hardware mode, the music is okay but the voices is choppy. But when I switch the audio setting back to software mode, there is no problem at all with the the sound and the voices is smooth. I am using the latest sound drivers and even with EAX disabled the voices is still choppy.

I am forced to play in software mode because of this problem. Is this a bug in the game or is it a hardware or software driver problem with my sound card which Creative Labs didn't bother to fix? Does anyone here with the same sound card as me have this problem?

TMnet confirms they are throttling P2P

nwk — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 16:52:53 +0800

for those who of you who still think tmnut don't throttle our BT speeds, this will put an end to all your doubts. I just spoke to a guy from TMnut CEO's office and he confirmed they are throttling all P2P traffic 24 hours everyday. He admitted to me that they are doing this because they are running out of bandwidth and also because of Lim Keng Yaek ordering them to improve their service due to a lot of people complaining to him about slow browsing speeds. He said they are aware of the situation and our speeds should return once TMnut add in more bandwidth by the end of the year. He says we have to bear with the slow speeds until TMnut acquires more bandwidth.

In response, I asked to pass some of my suggestions to their management. I suggested that TMnut don't throttle 24 hours a day because nobody is going to surf & chat 24 hours everyday and please have some consideration for P2P users like me who pay RM99 a month for the speed. I asked if TMnut can lift the throttle after midnight and give us our speed until 12 Noon. He said he understand because he also use P2P and it isn't fair to customers like me. Then I said why should I pay RM99 a month just to get slow dial-up speed? I might as well switch back to TMnet 1515 dial-up service if I wanted to surf & chat. I told him, if you want to be fair to all users then don't throttle 24 hours a day and lift the restrictions after midnight so guys like me can get what we are paying for. My last suggestion to him was to put up an official annoucement on TMnut's website so all of us can finally get the true story from TMnut and not waste our time speculating about throttling and waste our money calling their stupid CS all the time.

At the end he agreed to pass on all my comments and suggestions to TMnut's management and CEO. You guys are probably wondering why this Tmnut guy suddenly admit to me about P2P throttling? That's because I complained to CFM not once but twice about my slow speeds and on the second time they finally admitted they are indeed throttling all P2P traffic 24 hours everyday. I suggest all of you complain to CFM if you are not satisfied with the standard answer given to you by TMnut's CS staff.

Cyberjaya Server - The cause of BT slow speeds?

nwk — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 15:03:29 +0800

For awhile now, the Cyberjaya server seems to be having problems. If you do a bandwidth test using speedometer, you will always get SERVER ERROR everyday. I just called CS and the girl said Cyberjaya server is suffering from very high LATENCY problems and she don't know when those idiots technicians will be able to fix it.

Is our international gateway linked to the Cyberjaya server? Is this the root and cause of all our BT problems??? Anyone have any ideas???

The Bane Of All P2P Apps - DPI

nwk — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 15:29:45 +0800

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Deep packet inspection (DPI) is a form of computer network packet filtering that examines the data part of a through-passing packet, searching for non-protocol compliance or predefined criteria to decide if the packet can pass. This is in contrast to shallow packet inspection (usually called just packet inspection) which just checks the header portion of a packet.

DPI devices have the ability to look at Layer 2 through Layer 7 of the OSI model. This includes headers and data protocol structures. The DPI will identify and classify the traffic based on a signature database and will allow the user to perform many things.

A classified packet can be redirected, marked/tagged (see QoS), blocked, rate limited, and of course, reported to a reporting agent in the network.

Many DPI devices also perform the ability to identify flows rather than a packet by packet analysis.

DPI allows phone and cable companies to "readily know the packets of information you are receiving online--from e-mail, to websites, to sharing of music, video and software downloads"[1] - as would a network analysis tool.

DPI is also increasingly being used in security devices to analyze flows, compare them against policy, and then treat the traffic appropriately (i.e., block, allow, rate limit, tag for priority, mirror to another device for more analysis or reporting).

This is probably what TMnut is using to throttle our torrents. It doesn't matter if you change ports or if your data is encrypted, DPI will know it is P2P traffic and block it. I can only hope BT client developers will find a fix to this thing.

Complain here if your Bittorrent download is SLOW!

nwk — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 15:33:11 +0800

I am still being throttled from 12PM to 12AM daily since September 11. Uploads and Downloads to international peers are almost non-existant. I am only able to download from local peers during peak hours. I have called CS many times and they always claim they are not doing traffic shaping or throttling our torrents. I think TMnut is lying like a bloody whore!

1. Watch your language when you post. This goes out to everyone else too.

2. There is an existing discussion here: http://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopic=343157

The reason why BITTORRENT speeds are SLOW

nwk — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 18:07:47 +0800

I just found out this bit of info you guys might be interested in regarding bittorrent speeds slowing down during 12PM to 12AM.

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http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/#1548206

Allot Communications, a company specializing in "intelligent IP service optimization solutions" has unveiled the newest feature built into its NetEnforcer device. The device is now capable of detecting encrypted BitTorrent traffic. ISPs using the NetEnforcer will now be able to throttle BitTorrent traffic more efficiently.

As P2PNet observes, many ISPs recently began shaping their network traffic to keep BitTorrent users from sucking up all of the available bandwidth -- in some cases, BitTorrent accounts for half of an ISP's traffic. However, BT users were quick to work around the ISP's detection schemes by using RC4 encryption. All of the major BitTorrent clients recently added the option to encode transfer files using RC4 encryption.

The NetEnforcer uses Allot's deep packet inspection technology "to identify and analyze hundreds of applications and protocols, track subscriber behavior, prioritize traffic and shape traffic flows."

Here's more from Allot's press release:
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Previously, companies have been able to detect and manage applications based on the BitTorrent peer-to-peer (P2P) file transfer protocol. However, detecting encrypted BitTorrent has been nearly impossible... Today, Allot is announcing that its NetEnforcer is the first broadband traffic management device to identify and help manage applications based on the encrypted BitTorrent P2P file transfer protocol.

TMnut is probably using this piece of software to cap our torrents during peak hours and that is also why RC4 encryption doesn't work anymore. Here's hoping the developers of Bittorrent clients will find a way to beat this NetEnforcer piece of shit very soon.