Gaming
Pokemon SoulSilver Gameplay
I got the SoulSilver ROM. Because Kat didn’t record the further gameplay videos, so I will record one.
Colony
Colony is a fun real-time strategy game. It even have multiplayer mode. You can play it at http://armorgames.com/play/4264/colony.
The Colony community discovered many tactics and strategies, http://www.krinlabs.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=3105 is one of the tactic/strategy thread.
Here is my strategy:
- Build an Armory
- Set Armory to Provide Financial Support
- Build a Forge
- Set Armory to Prepare Backup Energy
- Send some Scouts and/or Romans for defense
- Set Armory to Provide Financial Support
- Build a Generator
- Upgrade Forge
- Build another Generator
- Upgrade Generators
- At this point, you should have 500 energy, you can demolish one of the Generators to build a Special Operations or replace it with an Outpost for tactical diversity.
I also figured out some useful tactics:
- Put strong units such as Tanks or Gröditzes on the front, and put Meditecs and/or Snipers behind them, this lets the snipers and Meditecs live longer.
- Send some Sakata Mk-IIs and Phantoms above them, this gives you tactical advantage because Sakatas are strong against Scouts and Phantoms are strong against ground units.
- By putting your units in the middle of the field, you can prevent the enemy reinforcements from advancing.
- Make sure you know the strengths and weaknesses of your units, like the types in Pokémon and Mega Man Battle Network/StarForce. The statistical guide shows the strengths and weaknesses of units.
- If you deploy Phantoms, the opponent will deploy Scouts, then you deploy Marines, if you don’t have Marines, try a different countermeasure or you will be put in the disadvantage.
- If the enemy has so much energy that they can spam missiles, you keep spamming Romans as decoy. Their 500 energy will be wasted.
Chinese Rip Offs
Now let’s look at something weird, or shocking : Chinese rip offs.
There are full of copycats in China that copy popular trademarks such as Nintendo Wii and Nokia to fool people to buy their products.
Vii is a rip off of Nintendo Wii. It imitates Nintendo Wii’s Wiimote and even their design. Vii comes with about 8 games such as golf, bowling and even fry egg. They all have horrible 2D graphics and boring gameplay. The Vii console is very light, if you open it, you can see its emptiness. Why the manufactor made the console so big? Because by imitating Wii, many iliterated and unexperienced people will get fooled (people will think it is Nintendo Wii). You can watch the Vii review video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wed_bW8iiEw. As you can see, the games sucked so much. It will be a nightmare if my Wii was replaced by that Vii.
Here are more links about Vii:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vii
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wed_bW8iiEw
- http://kotaku.com/gaming/copy/chinas-answer-to-the-nintendo-wii-305311.php
Pop Station is a rip off of PSP. Its packaging imitates PSP’s packaging, and the buttons also imitate PSP. The box even say “Color Display”. Like Vii, it has horrible gameplay, graphic and sound, and nightmare. Many variations of Pop Station are made, some of them have radio (to imitate PSP’s music player), some of them look like Netbook laptop, and you can watch review videos about Pop Station at Dr. Ashen’s YouTube channel. You can watch its review video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvXleDSkB-g.
Links about Pop Station:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popstation
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvXleDSkB-g
- http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=29641
Poly Station 3 is a rip off of PS3. You can play without hooking it to the TV. Of course, it’s a low-quality piece of plastic junk. You can watch a video about Poly Station 3 at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_a6lxiB1b_I.
Links about Poly Station 3:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini_Polystation_3
- http://www.previewgadgets.com/gadget/chinese-ripoff-the-polystation-3/
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_a6lxiB1b_I
Neo Double Games is a rip off off Nintendo DS. Instead of using 2 screens in one game, it has 2 screens, but the second screen is obslete and it’s only used for imitation purpose. Also, some buttons do not work, because they are used to make it look like DS> You can watch its review video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ow9SHsnFG2U.
More links about Neo Double Games:
Nokir is a Chinese rip off mobile company. They copy Nokia cell phones under the brand of Nokir. (in the logo, capital A and R look similar) You can read more about Nokir cell phones at http://www.newlaunches.com/archives/nokir_e828_episode_mmvx_chinese_copy_cats_strike_back.php.
Some people even rip off cars! Ferrari was ripped off under $10k. It guarantees no safety and insurance, so it’s a risk to buy it. Source: http://www.newlaunches.com/archives/chinese_make_a_fake_ferrari.php.
Other rip offs include fake iPhones, fake iPods and more. You can read more about them at http://www.newlaunches.com/archives/top_10_chinese_rip_offs.php. Even footwears are ripped off, under a mispelled name, for example: http://engrishfunny.com/2009/07/06/engrish-bna-knie/. Iliterated Chinese people made this: http://failblog.org/2008/07/22/translation-fail/, they think “Translate server error” means “Restaurant”.
Why there are so much rip offs in China? The intellectual property (IP) protection in China is poor. They could copy foreign IPs without lawsuits. Therefore, China is a big country of piracy. Almost all Windows XP discs are pirated (price is about 11 yuan). (some pirated Windows XP discs states that they are cracked by Russian hackers. Russia and China are related to communism.) Also, many Chinese people are uneducated, illiterated, and unexperienced. Therefore, they are more prone to bootlegs, pirated products and scams. (“When you are buying Vii, you are buying communism!”) The rip off manufacturors intentionally imitated major consoles such as Wii to fool people, and also to fit the poor economy. Can you imagine that your Nintendo Wii was replaced by Vii, your PS3 was replaced by PolyStation 3, and your DS was replaced by Neo Double Games. Can you imagine you are playing same boring games with horrible graphics and sound? It will be a gaming nightmare for you.
Middle of July
We finally reached the middle of July. I spent most of my time on the Internet.
In this week, I finally got Mega Man Star Force 3 : Black Ace. I finished it in 2.5 days (16 hours, incl. the time spent at collecting cards and visiting every Cyber Cores). I mastered online battling. Last time, I was fighting someone with higher HP than me and he transformed to Black Ace. However, I dodged/blocked all of his attacks (all of his attacks are lock-on-enabled). Then I used a very useful combo: DblStone + Bombalizer. Currently, my online winning percentage is 70%. I recommend you to add more SwrdFghtrXs and MadVulcnXs to your folder, it’s very useful.
Recently, I also practiced oekaki drawing. First, I could not draw anything, then, I started to adapt it. Here is a sample of what I drew: http://www.treeofbeginnings.jenviousity.com/oekaki/index.php?a_match=SpaceMan.
I finally finished watching Code Geass season 1. At last, Zero (Lelouch) left the Black Knights alone to rescue Nunnally (I had a hard time at spelling the characters’ names), then Suzaku appeared and tried to shoot Zero, then the last episode ends. According to Code Geass Wiki, Lelouch and Nunnally were sent to the Emperor and Lelouch’s memory was rewritten to forget about Nunnally and the Black Knights.
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