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12-31-2002, 09:00 AM

Hey!

Yeah, it did. Here are two fun pictures.

http://msdelta.net/~dave/images/house-fire/P0001315.JPG - PSOne and GameCube.

http://msdelta.net/~dave/images/house-fire/P0001316.JPG - The rest.

Both are big pictures; the second one is smaller, Kilobyte-wise, and shows more.

Matt and Giles bought me an Xbox, Splinter Cell and a TV to play it on. I cracked this weekend and bought a GameCube (and saved the receipt, so insurance will reimburse me for it). So I'm working it back up.

GameCube, Xbox, PS2 and PSOne are stupid easy to replace. It's the rest that I'm worried about. N64 units are increasingly difficult to find in mint condition. Dreamcast is seemingly impossible to find brand-new (though I haven't looked super hard at local game shops). Getting an original NES that doesn't need to be blown in is probably not going to be easy. I guess a Genesis in decent condition will be alright if I look around on eBay.

And then there's the games... I had a lot of good Nintendo and Genesis carts that are totally ruined. Ugh.

Remember how much I talked about Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3? I probably put over 150 hours into that game... all my save-game data is on the Xbox's hard disk. :\ My CTR save, which was at 100% completion (and involved probably 60 hours of game time) is gone. Miraculously enough, all of my memory cards (except PSOne, which was probably the worst-hit console) were able to copy data. So I have my Halo save, my GTA3 saves, my Super Mario Sunshine and Super Monkey Ball saves... pretty much the one glimmering ray of sunshine in the whole console mess.

But back to what I'm doing now... well, I can't drag myself away from Splinter Cell. Cam wasn't lying - it's fucking great. <b>Fucking great</b>. It is definitely hard (and I'm only on the 5th mission), but it's fun, and not frustrating (though Paul would argue otherwise). I will hopefully beat it in a week or two. I flew through a lot of it this weekend. Or rather, I got a lot done. I didn't really fly through it - we probably already have 20 hours on it. Hopefully I can get it done in another 20?

Cam, have you beaten it yet? If so, how was it as a whole?

12-31-2002, 09:00 AM	#210
dave Guest Posts: n/a	Hey! Yeah, it did. Here are two fun pictures. http://msdelta.net/~dave/images/house-fire/P0001315.JPG - PSOne and GameCube. http://msdelta.net/~dave/images/house-fire/P0001316.JPG - The rest. Both are big pictures; the second one is smaller, Kilobyte-wise, and shows more. Matt and Giles bought me an Xbox, Splinter Cell and a TV to play it on. I cracked this weekend and bought a GameCube (and saved the receipt, so insurance will reimburse me for it). So I'm working it back up. GameCube, Xbox, PS2 and PSOne are stupid easy to replace. It's the rest that I'm worried about. N64 units are increasingly difficult to find in mint condition. Dreamcast is seemingly impossible to find brand-new (though I haven't looked super hard at local game shops). Getting an original NES that doesn't need to be blown in is probably not going to be easy. I guess a Genesis in decent condition will be alright if I look around on eBay. And then there's the games... I had a lot of good Nintendo and Genesis carts that are totally ruined. Ugh. Remember how much I talked about Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3? I probably put over 150 hours into that game... all my save-game data is on the Xbox's hard disk. :\ My CTR save, which was at 100% completion (and involved probably 60 hours of game time) is gone. Miraculously enough, all of my memory cards (except PSOne, which was probably the worst-hit console) were able to copy data. So I have my Halo save, my GTA3 saves, my Super Mario Sunshine and Super Monkey Ball saves... pretty much the one glimmering ray of sunshine in the whole console mess. But back to what I'm doing now... well, I can't drag myself away from Splinter Cell. Cam wasn't lying - it's fucking great. <b>Fucking great</b>. It is definitely hard (and I'm only on the 5th mission), but it's fun, and not frustrating (though Paul would argue otherwise). I will hopefully beat it in a week or two. I flew through a lot of it this weekend. Or rather, I got a lot done. I didn't really fly through it - we probably already have 20 hours on it. Hopefully I can get it done in another 20? Cam, have you beaten it yet? If so, how was it as a whole?