Games and characters, it’s all about the characters

Posted on March 27th, 2008 by arnljot.
Categories: Playstation 3, Playstation Portable.

I was reading the Playstation Blog, especially this posting.

I’ve played the game, “Everybody Shooter” and I enjoyed it. It’s a fun little retro experience, it’s easy to get to grips with. And it’s hard to be excellent at it. Just the way it should be I think.

But reading about Johathan Mark was almost just as fun as playing his little gem of a game. Here follows some quotes from the post.

In the day of 42″ and 50″ plasma rave, I quite loved this byte: “I look forward to playing Heavenly Sword on my 12″ TV.”

And these were suspicious. They are surely not the variety that one finds in Amsterdam Coffee houses? The quote: “Yesterday I bought 5lbs of hash browns.”

And the best one, the one which convinced me that this is a genuine character: “The Everyday Shooter code has no 4s or 5s execpt in the combination of 54, or in very rare instances 0.5, because 5 and 4 are very unlucky numbers.”

Now, so that it’s perfectly clear. The term “character”, is a term of endearment.

Another guy, who’s got plenty of character is Jeff Minter. If you want insight to the way he thinks, and what he’s up to check out his blog where he excersises his freedom of speech.

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PS3 - RemotePlay

Posted on March 27th, 2008 by arnljot.
Categories: Playstation 3, Playstation Portable.

I recently left M33 customfirmware for Sonys offical Playstation Portable PSP firmware (version 3.93).

No loss, actually. Sony is really getting to grips with the whole media home experience. And I hate be left behind when Sony is racing along with new features all the time for this killer combo.

But there is still a lot of “missing features” and tuning that has to be done for the features that’s there.

I posted a little comment on the playstation blog here, about what I feel has to be done to the RemotePlay feature.

I love my PSP and PS3, especially with Remote Play!

But I would like a little more tuning to when I’m able to connect.

Currently my PS3 has to be switched off, or listening for connection for my PSP to connect (I have the last but one FW for my PS3 “pre 2.20″, and 3.93 on my PSP).

I’d like it to be so that if I connect my PSP with RemotePlay to a running PS3, it’ll connect if no “counter meassure” is taken on the PS3 locally.

This ofcourse assumes that the PS3 is running in a RemotePlay compatible mode (RemotePlay enabled game, XMB, Folding@Home, etc).

When running something, and PSP attempts to connect, the PS3 should notify the local user to press the PS button or something within 5 seconds or so to reject the connection. If not rejected the PSP is allowed control.

The PSP should get appropriate error messages, like “Connection rejected by local user” or “PS3 running RemotePlay incapable game/activity”.

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