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Ah, well.
Since last time I have continued enjoying DDR X. I think I'm getting better at it too (full combos make me so happy!), although I haven't moved past level one yet and my scores sometimes go all over the map. Ask Jessie how her copy ended up with a D on "Here We Go" beginner mode. Or I might rather you didn't actually... (It's a quirky song; I just couldn't seem to get on the beat that time...)
The very next day after I got it working, I got Mom to play it with me---she was just stepping beside me; she hasn't gotten on the pad yet, but that's up to her anyway---and the need for a new TV was immediately revealed to her as we tried to read any of the onscreen instructions. She was also a dear and went ahead and ordered a foam-lined pad (and I have since tried Jessie's out; it's much much nicer than the thin kind).
But anyway, we went out today and got a new TV, a 26" LCD, which I just hooked up. I think we'll need an updated cable box to take full advantage, but it already looks light years better just with a coax hookup, to say nothing of the PS2 (for which I can now use the composite cable).
I also had gotten together a bunch of books and things to trade in. At my favorite used game/video/music store, I spent my credit on some MST3K and Wild Arms 3. I have this idea like there are a ton of awesome PS2 games out there and I just don't know what hardly any of them are (plus there's the old "90% of everything is crap" effect and the other 10% isn't what people are in a hurry to trade in, so good games or games from good series tend to be the harder ones to find, barring outright market-flooding), but WA3 seemed promising. I didn't get the manual for it, but that's what GameFAQs is for. It was also amusing, the clerk was a little miffed that I'd found the MST3K before she did. ^_~
Then at Hastings we traded in a bunch of books. Dad likes the used CDs there, but I spent my share of the booty too, on Porco Rosso. I haven't shown Jessie that one yet, and it was actually my favorite Miyazaki movie for some time (until Howl's Moving Castle came out, I think), so... ^__^
Since last time I have continued enjoying DDR X. I think I'm getting better at it too (full combos make me so happy!), although I haven't moved past level one yet and my scores sometimes go all over the map. Ask Jessie how her copy ended up with a D on "Here We Go" beginner mode. Or I might rather you didn't actually... (It's a quirky song; I just couldn't seem to get on the beat that time...)
The very next day after I got it working, I got Mom to play it with me---she was just stepping beside me; she hasn't gotten on the pad yet, but that's up to her anyway---and the need for a new TV was immediately revealed to her as we tried to read any of the onscreen instructions. She was also a dear and went ahead and ordered a foam-lined pad (and I have since tried Jessie's out; it's much much nicer than the thin kind).
But anyway, we went out today and got a new TV, a 26" LCD, which I just hooked up. I think we'll need an updated cable box to take full advantage, but it already looks light years better just with a coax hookup, to say nothing of the PS2 (for which I can now use the composite cable).
I also had gotten together a bunch of books and things to trade in. At my favorite used game/video/music store, I spent my credit on some MST3K and Wild Arms 3. I have this idea like there are a ton of awesome PS2 games out there and I just don't know what hardly any of them are (plus there's the old "90% of everything is crap" effect and the other 10% isn't what people are in a hurry to trade in, so good games or games from good series tend to be the harder ones to find, barring outright market-flooding), but WA3 seemed promising. I didn't get the manual for it, but that's what GameFAQs is for. It was also amusing, the clerk was a little miffed that I'd found the MST3K before she did. ^_~
Then at Hastings we traded in a bunch of books. Dad likes the used CDs there, but I spent my share of the booty too, on Porco Rosso. I haven't shown Jessie that one yet, and it was actually my favorite Miyazaki movie for some time (until Howl's Moving Castle came out, I think), so... ^__^
