Anime time.

Nananana
I just saved some slowpokes and I'm now watching some anime called "The Familiar Of Zero" And taking a break.
I watch alot of Anime, I actually prefer english dubbed ones before the original japaneese with subs. But I like the japaneese too. Depends. Like the series Naruto I could never watch other than the japaneese with subs.

Recent series I've seen is:
Claymore
Ontama!




Peace out! /Cate

Long time gone, But I'm Back.

Hi there!

I'ts been a while since any post were made here.
I actually kind of forgot all about this blog, I havent had any other blogs either so. Whatever yes?

I've just started playing my DSI again.
I'm currently playing mostly Pokemon Soul Silver, With the pokewalker. I really love this gadget, havent used it so much yet. But pokemons that arent avaible for catching you can catch in the walker. Awesome!

I'm only in Johto, Violet city and trying to lvl up all my new catched cutie pies.
My starter Pokemon is Totodile, (f) but right now she's just laying in someones pc and waiting.
I named her Lucky.

My current party is:
Onix Lv 8 named Rocky (m) traded it from a in game character named Rudy, Arrived at lv 3.
Nidoran♂ lv 12, (m) from the pokewalker. met at lvl 5.
Rattata lv 7 named Chewie (f), met at lv 2.
Kangaskhan lv 11, (f) met at lv 8 in the pokewalker.
Bellsprout named Weedie, (f) met at Lv 3.
Pidgey, lv 11, (m) met at lvl 2.

^^ So right now I'm just leveling up the so there fit fot fight for the first pokemon gym.

Yesterday I went to GameStop at the mall in sweden were they had this pre-book the new pokemon white or black and get Celebi Lv 50. So I did that costed 50 kr to prebook, but a friend of mine that has worked for Gamestop said you can always get back the money if you ask for it. And the guy in the store said i wasn't obliagated to buy the game right away. So that's good.
I had to elect white or black, so I chose white. ^^

I'm trying to buy the old GBA game Sapphire or ruby, and I'm also looking for fire red and leaf green. Peolpe on online secondhand stores are a bit crazy about the prices tough!
I don't want to pay 400 kr for something this old. Maximum 100 kr.
Well well, I'l have to find my GBA sp first too.

Tips of the greatest wikipedia looklike pokemon site that i really like.
http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Main_Page
Only problem is that its kind of slow, But I can survive.

Peace out!

Moved.

Hi there.
This last weeks I've been packing up my apartment.
And gone to my bf for a week of me almost only sleeping all days...
Not much gaming done at all. Kinda sucks.
Still playing prof layton and the curious village... Think I'm at the sweet bitter end now...

Today I cleaned my laptop, and took off all the buttons... ^^ After I had taken all buttons off I was really scared that I wouldn't get them back on...

hoho.

I'm going to try these games soon.
Drawn To Life,
Runaway The Dream Of The Turtle,
Elebits The adventures of Kai and Zero,
Trackmania DS
Puchi puchi virus,
Steal princess.

And tell you more what I think of them next time.

Byebye...

/Cate

I'm gonna catch them all IN MY MOUTH...

Hello there...
I was planning to get online with my NDSI today after buying that Wii/ds wifi connector but my lovely boyfriend told that was a waste of money since he just bought a D-link with wifi... But waiting until thursday/friday is not much fun. But I'l try to keep it together anyway...
Today is Norways day 17 May 1814, idependence day blahblah, That so important that I just told you that it is.... And everyone in norway loves eating mudkips. :3

Anyway back to something more game related...
I'm learning japanese with my DSI! Yes indeed... I'm just as good as a japanese toddler (The game says so) But It is really a funny way to learn, when you can use your DS. The games I'm currently playing are named "My japanese coach" And "Mind your language learn japanese"
The first one is the one i liked the most of theese two. I get words to learn, by playing different mini games and also learning how to draw the signs for the words, like in katakana or maybe hiragana and kanji. Fun nice and feels like I actually made some good afterward, Learning is the key to... ehm ehm...

Other than this I've been busy trying to find cheapest buy for the game "Walk with me" also called "Personal trainer: Walking" This game is simply just a keep track of how many steps you take each day... And that's for some kinda reason really really really intreseting for my at the moment... I'd love to have it right now so I could run around saying "EVERYBODY LOOK AT ME I'M GOING TO THE MOON"
You might wonder why I should or would scream something like that, It's beacuse all the people's steps should make so many steps that its more that enough to go to the moon or further... Haha nerdy and sporty... But that what Nintendo overall is trying to do, be the fintess of game consoles. Or at least it seems that way.

:3 Walk with me video in japanese. But it's easy to understand. :)



That will be all, I'm to tierd to stay awake.... Zzzzz

/Peace! Cate

Been trying cheats...And made a swedish translation for the acekard firmware

Hi!

Since last time I've been really into trying to find out how to get some of my favourite Pokemon's to my Pokemon pearl game, And found out there's a sea full of useful cheats. I didn't get any of em working except one, and that cheat only gave me Mudkips, But mudkips rule! So I have nothing to feel sorry about. But when cheating to get the pokemons you want is really hard I understand why not many people cheat more with the pokemon games. :O
Now I need Squirtle, Charmander and Celebi.... XD

And yes I made a Swedish translation for the acekard firmware, I even mailed it to them so maybe it will be in the next firmware release who knows... If not I and who ever wants it can have it from me. I just replaced the netherlands language file with my swedish one. :)

I thinking of maybe buying a other flash card later on if it can support playing gba without slot 2 :O And snes, nes, gbc and so on... That would be so dreamy! hehe.

Got a reply on a forum that said, "Yes you can play gba on ds with a emulator use google"
I did search on google but the only things you find when you do is DS emulators for PC not for the Actual DS, Maybe I can find something out if I try some of the other firmwares that's up for downloading at acekards site... We'll see ^...'^


Peace out!

/Cate

Done DPG:ing, Avalon code, Rhytm Heaven.

Hi!

I have been obsessed with trying to get nice working DPG files lately,
(DPG is the video file type that moonshell reads)
And I have to say, It will never come up to my real expectations of what a nice video on the DS should be like... But I think I have tried almost every DPG converter there is. And one thing that might surprise was that the program that I tried first was the one that worked best in the end.

The program I used was BatchDPG, I don't really know at all who programmed it but on every forum on the web people talks about it. When I first tried to use it, I got this message that man mencoder wasn't working. And after looking at all the other programs that you in most cases have to pay for the quality was no different from the free "BatchDPG".

And here is how I finally got it working.
First I downloaded
- AviSynth
- FFdshow Codec
from http://www.free-codecs.com
Went pretty fast and nothing weird.

Then I simply downloaded the program from http://rs97.rapidshare.com/files/32656294/BatchDPG_v1.3_beta_4.zip

And then It worked ^^ YATTA!

This is my set-up for the program, ^^
As you can see I'm going watch a lot of Naruto...hehe.
Another thing about watching videos in moonshell is that anime or cartoons like naruto or family guy, simpsons or whatever is to prefer watching. I for one would never convert a real life character movie or series because they look too flimsy, It's almost already too ugly for cartoon series. And the sub text in Naruto is just exactly the right size so you can read what it says.

I have been playing the game Avalon Code, (3504 - Avalon Code (U)(Xenophobia)

And this game really got me. It reminds me of a good Zelda game actually! A must try!
Since my acekard enables me to play every game I can find it's been hell too find games i really wanna play! And if you are like me and have a flash card I really recomend this game Rythm heaven too, At first it's kinda hard but then you get a hang of it and its really fun too, (3588 - Rhythm Heaven (U)(Xenophobia)
Small explenation would be, just as it says "Tap into the Rhytm" XDDD
Both this games got released this year so there very new. ^^

If someone has any nice tips of other music games other than guitar hero tour, wich cannot be played on DSI I would be happy to hear of them!

Cheerios on a toast!
/Cate

Acekard 2i

Hi again! XD

So what can I tell you about Acekard 2i?
For you who might already be familiar with flash cards this might not be that frilling to read. XDD

Acekard is one of many different cards you can buy from 3rd part sellers of nintendo ds accessories.
This particular one is very easy to use. And that's mostly why I choose it.
The idea of flash cards in general is to play home made games or backups, for example downloading nds rom files and putting on the card. This card reads MicroSD cards so you can easily can get everything from your computer and on to the card.
You'll have to dowload the newest firmware from the manufacters webbsite, and put on the card before putting roms on it and etc. One cool thing I relly liked was that you could change the skin of the acekard skin inside the ds ;DDD
You can also use something called "Moonshell" on the card. Wich makes your DS into a mp3 and video player. Wich I relly think is the coolest. Sure DSI can already play music and has a SD slot reader on the left of it but it so stupid that it only plays AAC file type, the same type as Ipod's plat actually but it makes things extra hard to get to. Cause senserily you will not take the time to make your mp3 files to AAC files... Maybe it's just me but I hate that sort of things.
The bad thing about "Moonshell" right now is like I said about mp3 in ndsi orginal program the same you'll have to render your movie type files such as .AVI and .MKV into this really weird file system called "DPG". Here's a good guide how to, but i failed to do it, but I think I'm gonna make some more tries another day.

I strongly suggest everyone to buy this type of cards instead of buying each game one at a time in stores, and as with the music indusry or games in generall if you relly want to suport the ones making a particular game go buy it, but theres lots and lots of games for ds and why not try them for free first if you have the chance?

I bought my card from Dealextreme wich has the lowest price online and ships for free. The only bad thing was it took almost 3 weeks from that I orderd it and payed for it til' it came....

Right now I think the Acekard 2i is the only card that work properly on the dsi, but if you have an older vesion lika ds lite or ds phat, theres a big sea of different cards out there!

Tips for dowloading roms: http://www.romulation.net/downloads/
Great guide for installing moonshell on the acekard http://ds.gayadesign.nl/?p=19
(When setting up the moonshell acekard is not included in the list but i choiced supercard microsd alternative and it worked just fine!)
And guide for converting movies to be playble on the moonshell http://ds.gayadesign.nl/?p=23

I got the Acekard up and working right away, the problem now is mostly wich game I'm gonna play? :P From only having 2 games to... All the games I can get hold of is a big big big responsibility hehe...
Only had problems with one game so far and that was "2230 - The World Ends With You (E)(XMS).nds" So im going to try out the US version instead....

.... Have any questions I will be happy to answer some :)

That's it for today, might remake or update this post tough. I'm never happy with things I write...
Cheers!

/Cate