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I love a cappella music, and a huge fan of beatboxing. Here’s what you get when you combine an awesome singer, awesome beat boxing, great video editing, and of course – awesome Michael Jackson music! Very entertaining.
Fix Soul Calibur IV: Broken Destiny “The game could not be started” error on PSP 5.00 M33
8 Sep2009
A few days ago I blogged about how I could not get Dissidia: Final Fantasy to run on my Sony PSP slim running 5.00 M33-6 and the steps that I took to fix it.
Today I encountered a similar issue while trying to get Soul Calibur IV: Broken Destiny to run. I got the following error:
The game could not be started. (80020148)
Okay so I went on to find a solution, and among the suggestions were to enable EBOOT.BIN in recovery mode. This is how you do it:
- Go to the recovery menu by turning your PSP off and powering it back up while holding the R-trigger
- Go to Advanced -> Advanced Configuration
- Set the value for Excute BOOT.BIN in UMD / ISO to Enabled
- Exit recovery mode and start the game
There is a better way to get the game to run without having to enable EBOOT.BIN. This involves modifying the untouched European ISO using a Ripkit. This fix was created by Daveweed, so all credit goes to him.
Soul Calibur IV EUR [346 MB cso] Fix & Ripkit By DaveWeed
Tested on PSP Fat FW 5.00m33-6
Ripped : update,boot.bin fixed & renamed to eboot.bin
Extract the ripkit into a folder,Copy your Untouched iso game into same folder,
rename your Untouched iso to original.iso and double click rip.batUntouched iso must be 859 GB (900,923,392 bytes)
I have edited the boot.bin and renamed it eboot.bin using the following instructions :
- extract BOOT.BIN from euro game.
- Open extracted BOOT.BIN in hex editor
from 0×00399AF0 to 0×00399B0B
hex with zeros MEMSTICK.IND….MSTK_PRO.INDat 0×0039A1C9 change text SAVEDATA to PAVEDATA
at 0×0039C095 change text SAVEDATA to PAVEDATA- rename BOOT.BIN to EBOOT.BIN repack iso. approx 350 MB.
Features:
- No need to go to recovery menu.
- Boots on at least 5.00 m33-4 phat no deletion of mem stick files needed.
- Game Saving appears to work ok.
Credits to faceless81
Enjoy
Dissidia: Final Fantasy is Square Enix’s entry into the action RPG / fighting game genre for the Sony PSP.
The game features characters from different Final Fantasy games and centers around a great conflict between the heroes and villains, as the god of discord, Chaos, tries to wrest control of their worlds from the forces of good.
In the game’s story mode, the heroes of light who fight for Cosmos battle against forces of darkness, who fight for Chaos. Along the way encounter weaker doppelgangers patterned after themselves, called “mannikins”.
It was released back in August and I have been playing it ever since. Similar to other fighting games, Dissidia features alternate looks for each of the fighters, to help players distinguish one from the other in combat.
Another cool feature of the game is the “EX Mode”, which allows players to deal insane amounts of damage. Each “EX Mode” features a mini-game. Perfect completion of the mini-game deals the maximum damage possible.
Back when I started playing this game I wanted to see what each of the character’s alternate and EX Mode looked like. I could not find any back then. Now that I unlocked everyone except for Shantotto and Gabranth, I have decided to capture their looks and share it to the world.
Feel free to use these images on your website, but I would appreciate a link back to this page if you ever do. Enjoy!
Update: Added Shantotto, Gabrant, Cosmos, and Chaos
Warrior of Light – Normal
Warrior of Light – Normal (EX Mode)
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Warrior of Light – Alternate
Warrior of Light – Alternate (EX Mode)
.jpg "Warrior of Light - Alternate (EX Mode)")
Warrior of Light – Mannikin (False Hero)
.jpg "Warrior of Light - Mannikin (False Hero)")
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Wonder Girls performs Nobody live on Mnet M
2 Sep2009
Very good showmanship by the girls. Eye contact, coordination, and rhythm are just perfect.
Nabade nabade bachu! *swoon*
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Probably one of the most insulting things about the Philippines I have ever read. Sad thing here is there really are people around the world who think like this.
Very entertaining post and really made (i.e. ruined) my day.
How the heck do they get through life with NOTHING inside their heads?!
Huge discrepancy: How do locals affords ANYTHING in the Philippines?!
There’s something I don’t get in the Philippines which doesn’t add up at all.
How do local people afford ANYTHING, period?
Most store workers in the Philippines tell me they make around 150p per day, or a little more. But 150p per day is not even enough to eat even two meals per day!
So WHO are the mysterious people buying those 700p chairs in the furniture store, those 350-450p shirts in the mall, those 1000p nice jeans at SM Mall, and these 1000p baby milk cans every week?! The numbers do not add up at all, not even close. There is no way that a person making 150p a day, even two people making that much, can afford ANYTHING in a store, period. Nothing. It’s mathematically impossible to purchase ANYTHING on an income of 150p per day. Thus there’s a HUGE UNEXPLAINED DISCREPANCY here.
So who keeps all the stores and expensive products in business? How does anything get bought or paid for at all, period? This is a great mystery and no one can provide any logical answer to this. I’m very confused. Dianne can’t explain it either.
I do not believe that other people here who say they only make 150p per day can afford the same expenses as me, so there must cheaper ways of living here right?
Right now I’m spending over a thousand pesos a week on baby milk, for a huge 900g can that gets used up in less than a week! I can’t believe it. A thousand pesos a week just on one product! Even an entire family making 150p a day each could not afford that, among other things. So what gives? How do they raise their babies then, with prices for baby milk being completely outside of their reach?
Sometimes I feel like I’m the only customer in the Philippines. lol Is there a big secret here that I don’t know about? (Maybe I’m in something like The Truman Show and the whole world is playing a practical joke on me, as I try to make sense out of everything? lol)
Am I missing something here? How do you account for this huge widespread mathematical discrepancy?
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What is Follow Friday on Twitter?
29 Aug2009
As a long time Twitter user I always see Tweeps tweeting Follow Friday but I never really understood the real concept behind Follow Friday. I always felt that it was just a bunch of people spamming some those keywords to create a “follow train” and eventually became very popular. I decided to do some research and found a good article explaining what it really is.
What is Follow Friday on Twitter
By Justin Germino
Follow Friday is a twitter meme that is used to call attention and indicate that your followers should check out and be a part of a conversation or read posts by someone who is participating in follow Friday. Tagging a tweet with #followfriday will allow it to be searched for and everyone who tags the same way can follow their own specific tweets and form a group conversation. Once engaged in a group if you want to call attention to an article, post or tweet you can simply Re-tweet something and add #followfriday to bring everyone’s attention to it.
Often when I do my Random Twitter poetry game, on Friday to get more participants to send me words I will tag my call for random words with FollowFriday so more people will play the game and see the poem that I have crafted based on random twitter words. It also allows people to see what the most popular discussions are taking place on a Friday, which is typically a less busy work day so more people spend time chatting on twitter than on other week days.
Many people feel that FollowFriday is exclusive and excludes people, but you can choose to participate anytime merely by tagging one of your tweets you wish to share. Follow Friday is one of many ways to try and draw in a reading crowd to get more people to notice what you are saying and bring people to draw attention to the tweets they wish to stand out more than others.
Many people new to Twitter can use #FollowFriday to find out who some of the most active and highly recommended people are to follow, and for people more experienced they can recommend new and upcoming twitter members who are showing very active in the community to help get them a boost in followers.
No matter how you use #FollowFriday or whether you choose not to use it, at least know that it is a popular term on twitter and you will see many people participating in it, I myself use it to bring in some notice to my call for posts and not as its original intention which was to specifically highlight and call out other twitter members, so technically I myself don’t use Follow Friday the way it was originally intended, but as more and more people participate you will probably see that the acronym becomes less and less significant over the months as it is over-utilized.
So click on a #followfriday tweet and see what all the noise is about the next Friday that rolls around you may find some interesting people to follow, or you may just decide that is a bunch of fluff.
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Funny photo: Manny Pacquiao’s Taxi?
27 Aug2009
I was on my way to work today when I almost choked at the name of this cab owned by “Pacquing Transport”.
Could this be Manny Pacquiao’s taxi? Maybe he got tired of fighting and decided to retire and be a cab driver.
Either way, I wonder what people do inside a “pacquing taxi”? Guess I’ll have to ride one to find out!
P.S. With this post, I’m shamelessly promoting my new site, 
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I almost had a heart attack yesterday. I got myself a copy of Dissidia: Final Fantasy U.S. version, but it wouldn’t run on my PSP. My modified PSP was only running 4.01 M33-2. Apparently, Dissidia needs 5.00 firmware or higher to run.
Thus, I tasked myself with I upgrading the custom firmware on my Sony PSP, going from Dark Alex’s 4.01 M33-2 to Team33’s 5.00 M33-6. I did everything written in the instructions. I copied the 5.00 M33-6 updater to my /PSP/GAME directory. Since I was upgrading to 5.00 firmware I copied the official Sony PSP 5.00 firmware as well.
The firmware installation went smoothly. At the end of the update it gave me a confirmation message then did a reset. After resetting I went to System Information and it shows that I was able to successfully upgrade to 5.00 M33-6.
Ok, time to play! To my horror, none of my ISO / CSO games would run. Whenever I tried to load a game I would get kicked back to the XMB with the following message:
The game could not be started. (80020321)
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
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De Quiros to GMA: Your days are numbered
19 Aug2009
Conrado de Quiros recently published a scathing piece on his column on the Philippine Daily Inquirer, entitled “May araw din kayo”. For non-Taglog speakers, the closest English translation I could think of is “Your time will come”. While I think this is a good translation, it doesn’t really translate the true emotion behind “May araw din kayo”. I find it sad that many non-Tagalog speaking people will never be able to appreciate the intensity, the anger, and the pain behind the line “May araw din kayo”. So, we will just have to settle with “Your days are numbered”.
Now that should be enough to give you an idea on the contents of the article, which targets the recent fiasco involving Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and her cohorts spending an allegedly insane amount of P1 Million dinner for a dinner at Le Cirque in New York City, USA.
I’m posting this article because I really admire Mr. de Quiros’ courage and tenacity to write something so brutal in a way that is so vivid that you could see every gruesome detail in it. By the way he keeps writing, I wouldn’t be surprised if he sleeps with a shotgun under his pillow. Who knows, he might be dead tomorrow. I just hope that he has a strong relationship with the Big Guy Above and not suffer the sad fate that many talented-but-now-dead journalists in the Philippines suffer.
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Video: Exercise to reduce stress
18 Aug2009
I have a hard time dealing with stress. It’s become so bad that over the past few weeks stress has prevented me from getting a good night’s sleep. Sometimes I would fall asleep at 5 A.M. Sometimes I do not get any sleep at all. It’s past 4 A.M. as I’m writing this.
I found this video which will hopefully help me reduce stress and feel more relaxed. I shall try it out and post my results here.
The awesome thing about this stress reducing exercise is that it only takes a minute or two and it is very easy to do. I’m off to try it out now. I hope it works for me, wish me luck!
Update (08/21/2009): I have been doing the exercise regularly for the past few days. The girl in the video makes it seem easy but it’s actually a lot harder to do, especially if your body isn’t really that flexible, like me. LOL. It really helps, though! I always feel much more relaxed afterwards. I have been doing this in combination with other techniques such as meditation and better time management. As a result, I am now sleeping and waking up earlier. I’m still far away from my goal of being able to fall asleep on demand – something that I used to be able to do until a few years ago when I switched jobs, but I think I’m off to a good start!
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