[XCSSA] Call for subjects in July

Mon, 8 Jan 2007 02:03:26 GMT

I did not get any new consoles this Xmas although I am aiming to acquire an Xbox 360 this 
spring with some of my tax refund money. Then I will be ready for "Grand Theft Auto IV" 
which is coming out in October.

I did get six new games for Xmas to play around with in the meantime:

"Soul Calibur III" - PS2
"Snoopy vs. The Red Baron" - PS2
"Painkiller: Hell Wars" - Xbox
"Lego Star Wars: The Video Game" - Xbox
"Black" - Xbox
"Halo 2" - Xbox (I also got "Red vs. Blue" (Season Four) for Xmas as a companion piece)

I am also playing around with Xploder HDTV for my PS2. It is a disc that will allow you to 
play most of your PS2 games in Progressive Scan. Some of my games will work with no 
issues. Then I have others that work but with a couple of minor things. And I have a few 
others that glitch up so bad they are unplayable or won't load up at all. A very interesting 
product.

I could give a demo of Xploder HDTV using a specially modified PS2 (model SCPH-30000). I 
managed to acquire RGB video signals off of the motherboard. However, my incessant 
hacking has disabled the machine's ability to properly timestamp my save games (plus it 
can't do anything other than RGB video because I messed up the sync mixing chip) so I 
don't use this unit often.

I managed to acquire another SCPH-30000 unit for $40 from a pawn shop (it has disc read 
issues) that I intend to restore. I plan to use the RGB modified unit to poke around to see if I 
can trigger Progressive Scan off of the motherboard and use the knowledge I gained from 
this unit on the new one.

I also completed my guide for "Bully" and uploaded it to GameFAQs. It is also one of the 
games that work beautifully with Xploder HDTV.

I'll talk to my supervisor to see if I can get scheduled in a way so I will be able to go to this 
month's meeting. Being that the holidays are over I don't think I'll have much trouble with 
scheduling. Considering that there is more than one Robert posting right now I'll also attach 
my GameFAQs user name to help tell us apart.

--Robert (RARusk)

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