nVidia's configuration tool for their restricted drivers doesn't properly generate a xorg.conf in all cases. The tool isn't put in the menus automatically, I forget what the command line for it is. nvidia-settings or nvidia-configure or something? Anyways, if your monitor model name has a " in it, it won't be escaped when it's enclosed in quotes, and xorg.conf will get confused and won't start next time you boot. Oops.
Fortunately nvidia-settings (or whatever) makes a backup so it was easy to restore and reboot. Then I examined the file it outputs and rather quickly noticed nVidia's mistake.
I remembered that GameFAQs usually will still have what I need, just in disorganized jumbled form on the game forum. I got the answers to most of my pressing questions.
I was missing two energy tanks, one missle expansion, and two ship missile expansions.
I still don't know this.
The word is when you start a new game in the same slot (once you beat the final boss it asks you) you save your tokens. I still am not sure about globally...
There's a bunch of people on GameFAQs swapping friend codes and trading like 5 tokens at once. Someone got ripped off though.
The Space Pirate map is in the same place as the rest, you just need powerups that you can only get after you beat most of the planet. After looking around the room with my other visors I figured it out.
No tricky powerups. They're all in the open.
I found an energy tank and a ship missile expansion I had missed. It was a piece of cake once I got the map.
This place I was thinking of was in the room where you get the power-up maps... and turned out to be the means to get the Space Pirate map.
I now have all items, now only things that are left are tokens, and scans to get tokens...
I think I'LL step back from Metroid Prime 3 for a bit... the end boss clobbered me. Only had 1/3 of it's health down too. I figured out how you're supposed to kill it though, so next time I try I'll probably get it.
I'm also still missing some stuff, and I got some questions. I know this isn't GameFAQs or wherever but no-one seems to have written a good walkthrough or power-up guide yet and I don't have the $30 guide. Any help? (Warning: Minor spoilers below)
I'm missing five pickups. Two energy tanks, and I'm guessing a missile expansion (I have 250, does it max out there or at 255?) The rest are ship mission expansions, then?
How do ship missile expansions come into play? When do they get refilled? I've never seen a counter for it anywhere, I don't even know how many I have. I know in open areas you can order in airstrikes anywhere.
When you get a token, is it globally, for all save slots? That is, if I start a new game will my unlockables reset and my tokens be emptied? More importantly, can I LOSE friend tokens like this?
Any quick and easy way to get friend tokens? Cause we all know Slashdotters don't have friends (just kidding). But seriously, I got someone to send me one token. You need something like 20 or 25 to unlock everything. And in case I missed a different color token that I can't get now, I'd have to start the game over, and... well see the above question.
About those pickups... I got the power-up maps for Norian, and the B planet and SkyTown. There don't seem to be power-up maps for Valhalla or the Space Pirate homeworld... are there?
If not, are there any "tricky" power-ups on Valhalla? I think I got everything there but I'm not sure. In a room behind the green door right before the last room with the pirate code, there's a sectioned off area with Metroids that I can't get back to. It looks boring back there, but it's on the map, so I wanna know if there's anything useful hidden back there...
On the pirate homeworld, I got an energy tank in a room where you fight a Metroid Hatcher. Are there any more hidden on that planet? (Cause as I said I'm missing two.)
I remember seeing a plate of plasmite (whatever, that stuff the nova beam can shoot through) somewhere on the pirate homeworld (or maybe the valhalla?) that WASN'T near where you get the Nova Beam... I think it was in one of the larger rooms, but I can't find it again for the life of me. Any places where you can use a Nova Beam to get a power-up (not the small corner room with a metroid and a missle upgrade, got that already)?
In return, here are some tips I've figured out that not everyone might know:
Metroids and cloaking troopers have weak spots which you can see with the X-Ray Visor. Makes killing them 10x easier.
The power-up maps I'm talking about above you can find in the room where you use your ship to pick up the big whatever, repair it, and set it down. In that room there are two morph ball slots in the wall with spider ball tracks which you can use to reach bomb slots. Bomb all of them to get the maps (OK this one isn't mine, found it out from GameFAQs).
Plasma beam fire seems more effective if fired rapidly instead of using charge shots.
When you get the Grapple Voltage, you can use it on any enemy you can grapple (not sure about pirates with shields) to drain life out of them and into you, although after some time they break free.
Sometimes if you press B quickly a lot to skip cutscenes when going from one place to another, the game will run out of cutscene and still be loading. If this happens you might see the title screen load screen for a moment as a stand-in before loading finishes. I can make this happen by landing at the Space Pirate Research Facility, and then using the tram to the right of the start point.
After you finish some areas, you may find strange energy enemies which can only be hurt in Hypermode. Note that there are two types so scan until you get both (they're hard to differentiate). If you kill a Red one, you get a boss token. Every time. Although I think you can only kill each individual one once.
I'll just say whenever I watch Halo 3 trailers, I never see precise movements of varying speed in the view... it's always jerky (turnstopturnstopturnstop). Whenever I use a K/M I crank the mouse sensitivity up high and aim with precision. The Metroid Prime 3 "Advanced" controls are almost as good as a K/M, although it took me half a game to get used to it.
The best part is that the MMCSS service claims to depend on the Windows Audio service, so you can't turn off this "feature" without disabling the audio stack. Of course if you dig into the registry and remove this dependency you can then turn off the service and still have normal audio, so they say.
Windows' inability to see more than one partition on a USB drive is not a rootkit trait, but a bug (or "feature") or unimplemented functionality.
And by "TrueCrypt" I also include other possible programs with the same or similar functionality.
Technically TrueCrypt Volumes are hidden from Windows, but I mean not in any way where you could take the drive, put it in another computer in a controlled environment and mount the drive as read only, and see things you couldn't see in Windows. The encrypted file and it's contents are viewable under all conditions... they just don't mean anything unless you use TrueCrypt.
And by the above I mean not including things that are, by design, hidden such as \$MFT on NTFS drives which holds the master file table, etc).
Finally, the Sony Rootkit #2 hides files from the user that don't need to be hidden and which the user can't make use of, AND which can be used by malware to hide their own files. On the other hand, TrueCrypt is used BY users to hide files, the user who uses it will be able to see the files hidden, it can only be utilized by Windows, the user, and any potential malware when the user explicitly mounts the drive and before they unmount it. Malware which installs itself cannot do anything from the drive when it is unmounted since the drive can't be accessed then. In the Sony scenario, the software has full control (but allows malware to take some of that control) and yields none of it to the user nor allows the user to use it themselves (well they could but I assume the average user isn't going to know about this, much less have need of using it. If they did need it, they'd Google and find TrueCrypt).
This is also nothing new in terms of USB drives. I have a USB flash drive, which I can't remember the name of, that essentially keeps a secure partition hidden from Windows unless you run a special app to put in a password to make it visible to Windows.
That's different. Windows can't "see" more than one partition on a USB flash drive... which is why the Disk Management MMC snap-in won't let you create more. If you make more than one partition Windows only mounts the first one it sees.
Of course this assumes you're talking about actual partitions. More likely you're confusing a virtual drive for a real partition; I'm thinking TrueCrypt, which is promoted by many as a way to keep files safe and encrypted on your thumb drive. You enter a password and an encrypted file on the first and only partition on the drive is mounted as a virtual partition on it's own drive letter. Nothing is ever hidden from Windows; Windows never knows that the simple file is supposed to be a partition, nor what the encryption key is that is needed to decrypt it. TrueCrypt supplies the first function, while the user's password or keyfile supplies the second. The only things hidden are the things the user explicitly wanted hidden by making the TrueCrypt Volume and putting files in there.
Or something by that name is probably what is responsible for this behavior (I'm in Ubuntu right now, which I'm noting is running games better than XP and way better than Vista...)
Vista does put in place measures to ensure that multimedia applications have a higher I/O priority than other operations.
Whoever did these tests should try again with the Multimedia Class Scheduler service disabled to see if it makes a difference. Also they need to try multiple multimedia applications (WMP would benefit from MCS, but other multimedia apps may not yet).
Actually from what I've heard the girls are as such so that the player would have to make a difficult ethical decision... it'd be a lot easier to blast them to bits if they were adjust male zombies, yes?
Just increase the "number of copies" value in the print dialog and off you go. I mean really, it's not that hard. Or save the HTML/PDF to disk and print away whenever you want.
And if measures are in place to prevent any of that from working... I don't want the coupons. It's definitely not worth the trouble or the ActiveX controls that would be bogging down my PC.
Granted, this doesn't cover any "I agree to not print out extra copies of this coupon under penalty of death blah blah blah" but the summary indicates this centered around the PRINTING of coupons, not the use of extra ones.
It's only common sense that if you send something (like a coupon) to an end user that what they do with it is now out of your control.
If I use Adblock, this implies that I specifically installed it because I do not want to look at ads, so I block them.
It follows that if Adblock was not available, I would ignore ads and not click on them. If they are particularly irritating, I would complain to the webmaster, so Adblock actually does them a favor.
Also, since I know enough to find and install Adblock, I can also find and install ad blockers for other browsers.
It also follows that since I can install Adblock, I also may know about other extensions such as User Agent Switcher, which can be used to easily bypass most browser checks. The rest can be bypassed by using Adblock to block whatever JavaScript file is checking for browser-specific behavior. Yay for irony!
Furthermore, if I see a website which discriminates against me based on browser use, I am likely to go elsewhere where I can be treated more fairly.
Well one could make the emulated screen(s) not take up the full size of the iPhone screen and then use the extra space for buttons on the touchscreen. But the main problem ATM is that the only good emulator is horribly slow. If you consider that the DS is comparative in power to, say, the Nintendo 64, although maybe a little more powerful than that, then compare the speed and maturity of current Nintendo DS emulators to Nintendo 64 emulators, then it's obvious they still have a ways to come.
FAT32 works natively on all three, but of course it's showing its age. I use Windows mostly, and compared to NTFS, FAT32 is more susceptible to data loss than NTFS and also doesn't have security controls like NTFS. Plus that whole 4gb-per-file limit thing.
I just finished Thief 3 (Deadly Shadows). It was built on the Unreal engine, unlike the first two games which used a proprietary engine, I believe. I was glad to see that the gameplay was tweaked to match the original.
About the only thing I missed was that items such as keys and letters no longer go in your inventory, although I suppose that helps keep it less cluttered. There are also less keys to find to open doors--unless I kept missing them; they are hard to spot after they fall off of a ragdoll. Keys you do find, as I said, don't go in your inventory and are used automagically, which I don't really like. It's like the door was always unlocked.
The other thing I didn't really care for was that every level is split into two or three parts, and the overworld is split into many parts. I like the overworld idea as a whole, especially that you get to pawn your own goods and buy and sell at different shops, but the frequent splits lead to frequent loading... and saved games don't load too fast either. It would be nice if the engine didn't reload the level I was just in. These problems are most evident when, in a certain portion of the game, you are running to specific overworld levels, so you spend more time on the loading screen than you do running from level entrance to level exit.
I also couldn't find the cornerstones you're supposed to shoot with your bow to appease the Pagans, but I didn't need those anyways, I just found their water element shrine thing and fired 20 water arrows through it to make them happy.
Still I suppose I'm nitpicking, it was a great game for the $20 I paid for it on Steam. Steam makes sporadic game purchases more fun!:)
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nVidia's configuration tool for their restricted drivers doesn't properly generate a xorg.conf in all cases. The tool isn't put in the menus automatically, I forget what the command line for it is. nvidia-settings or nvidia-configure or something? Anyways, if your monitor model name has a " in it, it won't be escaped when it's enclosed in quotes, and xorg.conf will get confused and won't start next time you boot. Oops.
Fortunately nvidia-settings (or whatever) makes a backup so it was easy to restore and reboot. Then I examined the file it outputs and rather quickly noticed nVidia's mistake.
I remembered that GameFAQs usually will still have what I need, just in disorganized jumbled form on the game forum. I got the answers to most of my pressing questions.
I now have all items, now only things that are left are tokens, and scans to get tokens...
I did? Sorry if I didn't make it prominent enough. :( I tried to keep spoiling to a minimum as well.
I think I'LL step back from Metroid Prime 3 for a bit... the end boss clobbered me. Only had 1/3 of it's health down too. I figured out how you're supposed to kill it though, so next time I try I'll probably get it.
I'm also still missing some stuff, and I got some questions. I know this isn't GameFAQs or wherever but no-one seems to have written a good walkthrough or power-up guide yet and I don't have the $30 guide. Any help? (Warning: Minor spoilers below)
In return, here are some tips I've figured out that not everyone might know:
I'll just say whenever I watch Halo 3 trailers, I never see precise movements of varying speed in the view... it's always jerky (turnstopturnstopturnstop). Whenever I use a K/M I crank the mouse sensitivity up high and aim with precision. The Metroid Prime 3 "Advanced" controls are almost as good as a K/M, although it took me half a game to get used to it.
The best part is that the MMCSS service claims to depend on the Windows Audio service, so you can't turn off this "feature" without disabling the audio stack. Of course if you dig into the registry and remove this dependency you can then turn off the service and still have normal audio, so they say.
Man that's a weird typo. I never thought "Halo 2 PC" could end up reading "Starcraft 2008". ;)
That's different. Windows can't "see" more than one partition on a USB flash drive... which is why the Disk Management MMC snap-in won't let you create more. If you make more than one partition Windows only mounts the first one it sees.
Of course this assumes you're talking about actual partitions. More likely you're confusing a virtual drive for a real partition; I'm thinking TrueCrypt, which is promoted by many as a way to keep files safe and encrypted on your thumb drive. You enter a password and an encrypted file on the first and only partition on the drive is mounted as a virtual partition on it's own drive letter. Nothing is ever hidden from Windows; Windows never knows that the simple file is supposed to be a partition, nor what the encryption key is that is needed to decrypt it. TrueCrypt supplies the first function, while the user's password or keyfile supplies the second. The only things hidden are the things the user explicitly wanted hidden by making the TrueCrypt Volume and putting files in there.
Or something by that name is probably what is responsible for this behavior (I'm in Ubuntu right now, which I'm noting is running games better than XP and way better than Vista...)
I would find whoever wrote the stupid standard and make sure they are incapable of drafting any more standards in the future.
Vista does put in place measures to ensure that multimedia applications have a higher I/O priority than other operations.
Whoever did these tests should try again with the Multimedia Class Scheduler service disabled to see if it makes a difference. Also they need to try multiple multimedia applications (WMP would benefit from MCS, but other multimedia apps may not yet).
Actually from what I've heard the girls are as such so that the player would have to make a difficult ethical decision... it'd be a lot easier to blast them to bits if they were adjust male zombies, yes?
Just increase the "number of copies" value in the print dialog and off you go. I mean really, it's not that hard. Or save the HTML/PDF to disk and print away whenever you want.
And if measures are in place to prevent any of that from working... I don't want the coupons. It's definitely not worth the trouble or the ActiveX controls that would be bogging down my PC.
Granted, this doesn't cover any "I agree to not print out extra copies of this coupon under penalty of death blah blah blah" but the summary indicates this centered around the PRINTING of coupons, not the use of extra ones.
It's only common sense that if you send something (like a coupon) to an end user that what they do with it is now out of your control.
Creationism != Anti-evolution.
I happen to believe in creation THROUGH evolution, myself.
That's great. I guess someone who submitted a filter to Adblock Plus has a sense of humor. :)
Ok... let's break this down...
Err... I don't think it counts when they sell them to themselves because... nothing actually changes hands, so it's not legally* a transaction...
* - IANAL
DOSBox's download contains the GPL in COPYING.txt. So it was intentionally stripped out by iD...?
Too much trouble and it's too easy to work around.
If I want to alter records all I need to do is rip the DVD, edit it on my HD, and burn it to a new DVD+R, abd destroy the old one.
Well one could make the emulated screen(s) not take up the full size of the iPhone screen and then use the extra space for buttons on the touchscreen. But the main problem ATM is that the only good emulator is horribly slow. If you consider that the DS is comparative in power to, say, the Nintendo 64, although maybe a little more powerful than that, then compare the speed and maturity of current Nintendo DS emulators to Nintendo 64 emulators, then it's obvious they still have a ways to come.
But for $149 you could get a simple 16gb thumb drive and just use TrueCrypt...
FAT32 works natively on all three, but of course it's showing its age. I use Windows mostly, and compared to NTFS, FAT32 is more susceptible to data loss than NTFS and also doesn't have security controls like NTFS. Plus that whole 4gb-per-file limit thing.
...if you install Firefox on a non-C: drive, like me.
I just finished Thief 3 (Deadly Shadows). It was built on the Unreal engine, unlike the first two games which used a proprietary engine, I believe. I was glad to see that the gameplay was tweaked to match the original.
About the only thing I missed was that items such as keys and letters no longer go in your inventory, although I suppose that helps keep it less cluttered. There are also less keys to find to open doors--unless I kept missing them; they are hard to spot after they fall off of a ragdoll. Keys you do find, as I said, don't go in your inventory and are used automagically, which I don't really like. It's like the door was always unlocked.
The other thing I didn't really care for was that every level is split into two or three parts, and the overworld is split into many parts. I like the overworld idea as a whole, especially that you get to pawn your own goods and buy and sell at different shops, but the frequent splits lead to frequent loading... and saved games don't load too fast either. It would be nice if the engine didn't reload the level I was just in. These problems are most evident when, in a certain portion of the game, you are running to specific overworld levels, so you spend more time on the loading screen than you do running from level entrance to level exit.
I also couldn't find the cornerstones you're supposed to shoot with your bow to appease the Pagans, but I didn't need those anyways, I just found their water element shrine thing and fired 20 water arrows through it to make them happy.
Still I suppose I'm nitpicking, it was a great game for the $20 I paid for it on Steam. Steam makes sporadic game purchases more fun! :)