Too tired to write anything. Will try tomorrow.
Open Thread
For some strange reason I tried to record my gameplay of PacMan at lunch today, and OBS decided to be die. I’ll have to investigate that. My fault for not testing that particular game beforehand… That is one nice thing about OBS Studio, easy monitor capture without having to hook into program windows. Other than that my lunch was great. I enjoyed some Pan Bagnat, a sandwich I haven’t made in years. It originates from Nice France, which kind of surprised me… I always thought by the ingredients alone it was Italian.
Meh, I’ll try recording again either tomorrow or Tuesday.
Condensed version of the stream is up.
Didn’t record anything during lunch today, which was just as well… I played Mario World 2 as Mario, and confirmed to myself that I was really really out of practice. 😛
But instead I edited my video footage from yesterday’s stream to give you guys an abridged version so you don’t have to sit through almost two hours of Lara finding Scion swag, and lots of dying…
What I’ve been busy with
Over the last couple of days I’ve been trying to setup OBS Studio on my laptop. What’s really strange is that even if I maintain my gameplay above 60 FPS my output is below 30 even when specified at 60. I thought something was up with the NVidia codec, so I upgraded to the latest driver.
That was my first mistake…
After that I ran OBS Studio and the graphics card wanted to eject itself, then if I did anything else that would utilize my GPU the system would lock up solid. So I tried going back to the version before it, no dice. Then a couple restarts later Windows decided to put in it’s own driver and prompted me to do another restart. I restarted and got stuck in an infinite load cycle. After running System Restore everything was back to normal (even though Windows said it failed, gotta love Microsoft’s consistency in being totally accurate!). Then tried to install/uninstall my drivers only to find I couldn’t. After some dicking around I got it to install, but I had to use the device manager instead of NVidia’s installer, fabu…
After more testing I confirmed that OBS Studio for whatever reason sucks on my laptop. Meanwhile Classic OBS runs just peachy. So I guess if I record anything I’ll have to use Classic instead of Studio, which isn’t that big of a deal to me TBH. I just wanted to have OBS Studio on both systems for the sake of consistency. But NVENC works fine on Classic.
I’ve been playing with the idea of recording my gameplay during lunch (when I can) and turning it into vlogs. Maybe about why I played that particular game, what I like/hate about it, what I had for lunch, what form of insanity unfolded to make me play such a thing, food, etc.
Speaking of YouTubing, I did another Classic Tomb Raider Stream earlier this evening.
I have a local copy to go through in my spare time, as I’m sure there are a few highlights I can pinpoint within that long run of film, or I would at least HOPE there would be something in over an hour and a half’s worth of footage. 😛
Fun with Brawl
Over the last couple of days I’ve been tinkering with Smash Bros: Brawl in Dolphin. I have it setup to work on my Logitech controller, and it handles quite nicely. I’ve been enjoying kicking back and playing in fullscreen mode. 😀 I’ve even started modding the game. I installed Project M and switched around a few playermodels. So far I’ve switched Zelda, Marth and Ike. I’ve downloaded some others but have been having issues getting them to work. Here are a few I’ve managed to scrape together.
I was told that last picture looked pretty gay… Though in Brawl almost all of the powerup’s in Brawl are rather “fabulous”.
I rest my case.
Either way I’m off to a good start. Over time I’ll be sure to find more for my collection. 😀
Open Thread
The last couple days have been cold and foggy. We’re arriving at that time of year… I’ve been lighting at least one candle when I come home to shed some color and add extra light on an otherwise dim day. Between the dreary weather and the scented fucking candles I’ve been put into a small coma. Which perks me up for a bit at dusk. I should be happy about the added rest, I just wish I didn’t lose track of myself as easily. One minute I get up from my desk to grab something, and the next I wake up cocooned in a bunch of blankets.
I think after work I’ll pick up some red wine to make a nice mulled wine. I’ll have a couple days off in a row and it’s supposed to be pissing down rain. So I might as well stay in, drink hot beverages and embark on indoor activities that I’ve been needing to do. Like shopping.
Process of emulation
I’m not sure why, but lately I’ve been on a bit of a kick with emulators. Not just DOSBox but some other ones as well, mainly for the Playstation 1 and 2 and a bit of the Wii. Tonight I decided to play a bit of Devil May Cry, which never got ported over to PC and I always wanted to see what started the series. So far the game and the emulator have been pretty straight forward. It’s quite nice running these older games at 1080p with none of the console blur., something that always annoyed my eyes during the PS1 era. It works nicely with my F510, haven’t tried the Steam Controller because I wanted to go for a “familiar” experience.
As far as game play goes Devil May Cry is quite enjoyable, it feels like DMC4 to me minus some features. The controls are easy to get used to, although using Y as the jump button in place of A or X seems weird, but not really that awkward. I’m sure it’ll get hairier the further I get into it, but that’s fine. I’m not much for things that are too easy.
If they did a proper remaster or port for PC I’d definitely buy it. I’m not sure why they would leave the first two games in the series out (although I’ve heard rumor that the 2nd game was ass). You start with Devil May Cry 3 on PC, and because of Capcom’s shitty porting from the mid 2000’s you can’t really enjoy it unless you heavily mod it via nexus mods. Honestly at this point I’m not sure if I should try the mods or just do a full blown emulation. I’ll probably look into that when I finish the first game and attempt to try the second.
The streamining took place, and it was real
I did my first public YouTube livestream today. My choice of game was the first Tomb Raider.
It’s a little glitchy at first, mainly due to the emulator changing resolutions between cutscenes and the actual game. Actual gameplay and audio is pretty solid though. Hopefully my next stream will go a little smoother.
Gotta go fast!
Instead of ye olde Skyrim I looked through my vast and nearly infinite game collection that I know damn for well I’ll probably never complete. I arrived at the Sonic portion of my library and turned to Yutram, as we’ve talked recently about characters in the Sonic The Hedgehog series (I’m still trying to wrap my head around the idea of a goffik hedgehog wielding a gun actually existing) and figured he would send me in the proper direction. For the worst experience there was Sonic Adventure 2, and from what he heard Sonic Generations would be the best experience. Naturally I tried out the worst first to get my self loathing routine out of the way and made it to the first boss fight on the hero story arc before calling it quits out of frustration. I’m supposed to attack the cockpit, but couldn’t quite get it to work… Then I decided to say fuck it to the whole thing and went to play Sonic Generations, that was much more pleasant. I like the idea of going in between classic and modern sonic modes. And the graphics? Pretty bitchin’ for a sonic game.
I also discovered the casino DLC, where I found Pinball. One of the greatest games I’ve ever played. The overall experience was much more enjoyable. I’ll try to get back to Sonic Adventure 2, but that felt more awkward than anything. Who knows? Maybe playing the other games will get me more tailored to it.
A small break before heading back to reality
As hectic as work has been lately it felt nice to sit down to some Skyrim today. I’m back in Solsthiem searching for caves I haven’t encountered yet during this playthrough. Got my hands on the magic spiders and even crafted some of my own. The lightening and oil spiders are my favorites, though all of them are great to send to kill enemies. The blue goblins are also quite formidable against quite a few people. I saw a pack of them take down my Dremora lord. Of course I put them all in their place with my electrical crossbow. 😛 The ones that randomly appear when I’m in danger have been handy, enough to the point of me keeping one around as a follower. I have no regrets about becoming goblin queen, though given my current circumstances it still weirds me out.
This week and next week might be a little hectic for me. I have split days off both weeks, some of the customers have been entertaining me with their blatant stupidity though. I don’t know which was better… The lady looking for a case for their iPhone Galaxy 6 or the guy that wanted to know if all of our laptops came preinstalled with the bible… Work has been dragging me down and I think the 18 hours of sleep I awoke from this morning might be a sign. This whole time I still don’t consider myself a morning person, and the changes they’ve been making in our department would be great if we were all scheduled accordingly. But since we’re spreading ourselves thinner and thinner while also looking into laying off a couple more people I’m not sure how this is going to play out.