Archive for August, 2007

Alright, so I’ve always been sick and tired of the notice and then the autoclose whenever I try installing something and they juuust require certain operating systems. Eg. Needing Windows XP Professional whereas I have Windows XP Home on one of my computers. and I like that computer. >_> Well..
Ignoring Operating system autoclose warnings, I’ve managed to make things work on Windows XP Home [or Windows 2000, etc. etc.] Unlike the time I tried to get Adobe Photoshop CS2 to work on my Windows 98 rig ages ago. [which isn't that long but hush]
I have found out how you can edit, rename, or whatever you want to call it, and that’s using an installshield/windows installer editor such as Qwerty msi, which is freeware, by the way.

Of course, there’s all these warnings and disclaimers that if you damage the program or your computer by installing it, it’s not my problem and I take no liability for it.

However, through sheer dumb [luck] editing the installshield file was a solution that finally worked when I tried to get the Tablet Recognizer pack to work. Mhm. Yay. So now I can go and write chinese characters and get it recognised [eventually... although I certainly can't write anything other than my name and numbers.]

No real instructions here, but opening up the .msi file [or extracting it out from a setup.exe with winrar and then opening it], look around the properties for something like BadOS and a (X) sign that indicates closure and deleting those bits should work.
Of course, before that, BACKUP! So you know.. if it doesn’t work, you haven’t lost the program =P

But anyway, once you get it all edited, just click rebuild and run that .msi. .msi files work fine by themselves and act like .exe files so its alright in a way.

Well, I’ve just started to play the 3rd game in the Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney series called Trials and Tribulations and the first thing you get to do is play as Mia Fey ^_^ Even more interesting is who’s on trial — a younger Phoenix Wright! Haha. One’s who’s love sick over his girlfriend Dahlia Hawthorne who wants to kill him and is the actual murderer Then it’s back to normal time and I’m assuming Dahlia or “Dollie” is a major character. You know, because of all that foreshadowing … “I’ll be back” type of dialogue?

Well.. I can’t say much since I’ve only juuust played it yesterday and I’m only on the second case which is about a Kurain village exhibition. Only, something gets stolen. Well, that’s clear from it’s title of Stolen Turnabout but I wonder what gets removed. And hm, Adrian Andrews is back as a character. Does that mean Franziska will be back too? =P

Speaking of Phoenix Wright, did I mention the Phoenix Wright cosplayers/hosts of the SMASH! convention? That was awesome. -nods-

Of course, with the amount of things I’ll have to get complete by next Monday.. like fill in ICAA form, get some work done on the PECO1000 presentation since certain group members didn’t even turn up last week even though I went to the effort of travelling an hour to get to uni on an off day *murders >_>*, study for the QMB quiz [well that's on next Thursday, but still..], and well, clearly get the weekly load of homework complete [which is harder than it sounds =P], I probably won’t be able to play the game.

So I went to SMASH! on Saturday at the Roundhouse, which, I somewhat don’t really want to admit, is located at my university. Mhm. Going to uni on a Saturday when I don’t have to. Isn’t that fun? Well, anyway, it was an anime convention, if you aren’t aware, and well, it was brilliant!

Okay, so I had to leave and then come back at about 12.30pm to show my friend the way to UNSW when Who’s Anime Line is it anyway? and Iron Cosplay and apparently those parts were awesome =( Buut, the rest of it was coolness too.

Well, the day started off rather miserably because one of my friends who said they’d be there at 10am, didn’t turn up until well.. 12pm. So much loneliness for that period of time -_-’ I did explore a bit and bought some manga[was only $10AUD *_*] as a birthday prezzie [A Thousand Years of Snow] and a few copic markers though! =D Those multiliners are awesomeness *_* since the point was 0.05 [so fine that I'll buy more if I can find them!] and so smooth and unsmudgy for my lefthandedness. I also finally got some skin coloured markers.

You can see the image I drew on DevArt.
Features Ritsuka from Loveless =P

Anyway, wandered around buying stuff. Got some badges saying Yaoi Power and Baka *points left*, and also a fanart print of Ed and Al from FMA’s doujinshi game, Bluebird’s Illusion. [Did I mention that I do actually have a copy of this game? =P Can't understand Cantonese though, and I'm not about to ask anyone to read it for me =P]

But overall, apparently I missed quite a few things =( Did see the cosplay though. =D Makes me wanna cosplay, although I wouldn’t want to go by myself again [Why is it that alll my HS friends who liked anime that I asked were 'busy'? =(] Oh well, there’s always animania, although I would have to learn to sew in a straight line first =P