After spending all day in the hospital with my wonderful girlfriend (who had to have her appendix taken out), I came out and found a few interesting things online.
The first: Fan-made trailer for "The Green Lantern"
This is the best fan made trailer I've ever seen. The person who put it together used about 20 - 30 different movie/tv sources to create a piece of video made to look like the trailer to The Green Lantern. It is unbelievable. check it out:
The other thing I found was another fan-made piece of work I really enjoyed.
In Gremlins 2, there's a part in the movie where the film breaks and it is meant to look like Gremlins have either ruined the film (if you saw it in theatres) or ruined your VHS tape of the movie (if you are watching it on VHS).
Well, this guy took that part and edited in his own Gremlins - seriously - and scenes from Batman, The Goonies, Indiana Jones, and more. Came out great:
How did this guy do it? Why, he molded his own plastic/rubber Gremlins of course. Yeah...video from the guy explaining the process:
The coolest stuff comes from independent artists.
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Chuck Staton is a hero
Well, I've accomplished one of the most important things that I ever will accomplish, so I decided to post it here.
I usually stray away from my specific "modding"/"piracy" involvement, but not when it's something as important as this is.
Long ago, I fell in love with a certain video game peripheral for the Super Nintendo. It was called the Super Scope Six.
The only game I had that worked with the Super Scope?
Yoshi's Safari.
Yoshi's Safari (called "Yoshi Road Hunting" in Japan) is a "rail-shooter" (a first person shooter that moves on it's own - you know, like in arcades) where you are Mario, with a huge bazooka (the Super Scope Six), and you kill enemies while riding Yoshi.
The story was that King Koopa (and his no-good kids) had taken a bunch of jewels from Jewelry Land (this is true) and you had to go through levels and defeat them one-by-one.
Anyway - I just found out last night that you could put an emulator on the Wii that emulates SNES games. I have no need for this really, but I downloaded it and threw it on just to see if it had Super Scope support (you know, because the Wii-motes all have the lightgun capabilites).
Needless to say, it did.
Through hours of index-finger torment, I overcame all the Koopas, including one that looked suspisciously like Tom Wells riding a giant frog
and King Koopa, who liked he had been combined with Shredder from the Ninja Turtles.
I really want to acknowledge God on this one. I think he'd be the most....jealous.
I usually stray away from my specific "modding"/"piracy" involvement, but not when it's something as important as this is.
Long ago, I fell in love with a certain video game peripheral for the Super Nintendo. It was called the Super Scope Six.
The only game I had that worked with the Super Scope?
Yoshi's Safari.
Yoshi's Safari (called "Yoshi Road Hunting" in Japan) is a "rail-shooter" (a first person shooter that moves on it's own - you know, like in arcades) where you are Mario, with a huge bazooka (the Super Scope Six), and you kill enemies while riding Yoshi.
The story was that King Koopa (and his no-good kids) had taken a bunch of jewels from Jewelry Land (this is true) and you had to go through levels and defeat them one-by-one.
Anyway - I just found out last night that you could put an emulator on the Wii that emulates SNES games. I have no need for this really, but I downloaded it and threw it on just to see if it had Super Scope support (you know, because the Wii-motes all have the lightgun capabilites).
Needless to say, it did.
Through hours of index-finger torment, I overcame all the Koopas, including one that looked suspisciously like Tom Wells riding a giant frog
and King Koopa, who liked he had been combined with Shredder from the Ninja Turtles.
I really want to acknowledge God on this one. I think he'd be the most....jealous.
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Uncharted 2/ GH 5 details
Okay let's get this out of the way first - GH 5 is going to be the next step.
I've always disliked the lack of design and detail in Rock Band. It's just boring. Playing the songs with your friend is fun (although easier than GH) but the game itself is boring - GH has always been better, design-wise and all-around feel-wise.
But Rock Band ALWAYS had the upper hand, because whenever a new Rock Band game came out, you could add all the songs to your newest library (meaning when Rock Band 2 came out, I transferred my 60 or 70 Rock Band 1 songs to my Rock Band 2 library and sold my Rock Band 1 game back to Gamestop, and still had all the songs). Same thing with DLC songs for any Rock Band game...I have almost 300 songs in my Rock Band library.
GH never had this option - if I want to play "Jessica" (featured in GH 2) I have to go back to that old game disc to do so - and now there have been five GH games for Xbox 360 (seven by this fall). This also means if you bought DLC songs for GH 3, they don't show up in GH 4.
GH 5 details have been revealed - what's been added is DLC support for GH 4 (which means all DLC bought from last October and from now on) will work with it, and also that as many players can play an instrument at a time as you want (four people can jam out on four guitars - or drums, or vocals - together on one song).
These are awesome steps, but I'm hoping to God they will allow you to add the GH songs from previous games to your GH 5 library (to an extent: keep reading), and allow song additions from there on out - and I think this is possible, because starting with GH 4, each game came with a unique user code (just like Rock Band games). So far they've been used to get some free songs (GH 4) and some codes haven't been used at all (Metallica) - but because these same codes have been included in Rock Band solely for the purpose of adding that game's songs to one big library, I'm thinking this is what they will do (especially now that they are releasing all the old, pre-drum/mic songs with drums and vocals, in new games) and it looks to be that way. Let's all hope together.
and the reason I posted - five minutes of unbelievable Uncharted 2 footage:
I've always disliked the lack of design and detail in Rock Band. It's just boring. Playing the songs with your friend is fun (although easier than GH) but the game itself is boring - GH has always been better, design-wise and all-around feel-wise.
But Rock Band ALWAYS had the upper hand, because whenever a new Rock Band game came out, you could add all the songs to your newest library (meaning when Rock Band 2 came out, I transferred my 60 or 70 Rock Band 1 songs to my Rock Band 2 library and sold my Rock Band 1 game back to Gamestop, and still had all the songs). Same thing with DLC songs for any Rock Band game...I have almost 300 songs in my Rock Band library.
GH never had this option - if I want to play "Jessica" (featured in GH 2) I have to go back to that old game disc to do so - and now there have been five GH games for Xbox 360 (seven by this fall). This also means if you bought DLC songs for GH 3, they don't show up in GH 4.
GH 5 details have been revealed - what's been added is DLC support for GH 4 (which means all DLC bought from last October and from now on) will work with it, and also that as many players can play an instrument at a time as you want (four people can jam out on four guitars - or drums, or vocals - together on one song).
These are awesome steps, but I'm hoping to God they will allow you to add the GH songs from previous games to your GH 5 library (to an extent: keep reading), and allow song additions from there on out - and I think this is possible, because starting with GH 4, each game came with a unique user code (just like Rock Band games). So far they've been used to get some free songs (GH 4) and some codes haven't been used at all (Metallica) - but because these same codes have been included in Rock Band solely for the purpose of adding that game's songs to one big library, I'm thinking this is what they will do (especially now that they are releasing all the old, pre-drum/mic songs with drums and vocals, in new games) and it looks to be that way. Let's all hope together.
and the reason I posted - five minutes of unbelievable Uncharted 2 footage:
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Hilarious Spiderman Comics
So a while back, someone took existing Spiderman comics and changed the wording.
I didn't check who did this, as I am too lazy for that. See why I'm a journalist? Thumbs up!
Anyway - there were about 20 - I picked what I think were the best ones - hope you enjoy them (before you view them, realize that these are not all connected at all - each one is just three panels, self-contained).
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I think this has been done before with Garfield as well. I'll have to check (by the way - there is a Garfield comic maker - http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/public/sleep/starslp/missionz/comic.htm - so make some yourselves.
In final weird-ass news, Bill Hader and Seth Meyers (from SNL) have written a one-shot issue of Spiderman, entitled "The Short Halloween".
I know all you Batman fans are wondering if it's a parody of the legendary "Long Halloween" Batman story, and I don't think it is - just a parody of the title. It's out today in comic book stores. I, for one, am picking it up.
I didn't check who did this, as I am too lazy for that. See why I'm a journalist? Thumbs up!
Anyway - there were about 20 - I picked what I think were the best ones - hope you enjoy them (before you view them, realize that these are not all connected at all - each one is just three panels, self-contained).
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I think this has been done before with Garfield as well. I'll have to check (by the way - there is a Garfield comic maker - http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/public/sleep/starslp/missionz/comic.htm - so make some yourselves.
In final weird-ass news, Bill Hader and Seth Meyers (from SNL) have written a one-shot issue of Spiderman, entitled "The Short Halloween".
I know all you Batman fans are wondering if it's a parody of the legendary "Long Halloween" Batman story, and I don't think it is - just a parody of the title. It's out today in comic book stores. I, for one, am picking it up.
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