Yodariquo said:

Iga_Bobovic said:

bugsonglass said:

Iga_Bobovic said:

SteelAttack said:

Ravenprose said:

Wet towel. Yeah, that probably would start a fire!  

I don't wanna carry the burden of GG's death.

How would a wet towel start a fire?

water drips. results in short circuit.  sparks.  bingo

Fire needs oxygen, and the towel is used to block all ventilation holes. If it is wet, it is unlikely that the fire will burn through it before the fire gets out of control.

And I think it is highly unlikely that a spark will start a fire in the 360. At most some smoke will come out and you have some melted wires/circuit board. And I will asume that electronics have some safety precautions preventing fires. You know European regulations and all!

That being said, not a smart thing to do!

I'm not sure Microsoft will cover a melted hunk of plastic in its warranty.

Pretty much. You want to take advantage of MS's shitty engineering and cheap ass hardware, not melting the entire thing.

SteelAttack said:

It doesn't have to be wet.

What you are trying to accomplish is increase heat levels inside the 360, by forcing the GPU to work with the least possible ventilation, in order to make the motherboard warp and bend enough to induce a critical hardware malfunction, by loosening the solder joints that bind the GPU to the motherboard. A towel works, but I'd advise to play the thing with the most demanding graphical games available, i.e. Gears of War, RE5, and so on, and without ventilation. Cover all ventilation holes. Put things over and under the system. And keep running it, rebooting as needed, until RRoD shows.

 You said wet before, you sly dog. You are trying to cause a fire! 

The problem with running it with demanding games is that it freezes on every game, so its not running anything just showing me a static screen. 

SteelAttack said:

Ravenprose said:

Wet towel. Yeah, that probably would start a fire!  

I don't wanna carry the burden of GG's death.

 So I can't wet it a little and wring it out? I was going to use my own pee. 

SteelAttack said:

gamingeek said:

You said wet before, you sly dog. You are trying to cause a fire!

  When did I say wet?

You need to be patient. Reboot the system. Over and over again. You should be seeing by now, how the system deteriorates in real time. i.e. it's taking progressively less time to freeze and crash each time you load a game. That shows you are on the right track. You'll get there, eventually. But if you stop using it, you'll never get the coveted RRoD achievement.

 The hell? It freezes on the boot up sequence as the big green X is rotating. Then it will go to the game title screen and other times I get 10 seconds into a game. A full 10 seconds! 

Is anyone interested in Another Code R? I love CING games like Hotel Dusk and Little Kings Story. I was worried that the Wii game might be short but its suppossed to be 8-12 hrs which is the same as Broken Sword for instance. I'm looking forward to it, not sure I will bite at full price though. 

I saw Prof layton on DS on amazon for £18.

Worth it Bugs? How much is straight up puzzles and how much is story and graphic adventure type stuff? Is the story compelling? Do the puzzles fit well within the narrative?

gamingeek said:

Is anyone interested in Another Code R? I love CING games like Hotel Dusk and Little Kings Story. I was worried that the Wii game might be short but its suppossed to be 8-12 hrs which is the same as Broken Sword for instance. I'm looking forward to it, not sure I will bite at full price though.

i'm definitely interested in Another Code.  i also love these guys' previous work and the reviews of another code so far strike all the right cords with me.  if it were £18 i'd have ordered it without a second thought, as it is i'm still thinking about it but i think i will give in

gamingeek said:

I saw Prof layton on DS on amazon for £18.

Worth it Bugs? How much is straight up puzzles and how much is story and graphic adventure type stuff? Is the story compelling? Do the puzzles fit well within the narrative?

apart from navigating around the village and pointing on stuff and villagers, the actual gameplay is ALL puzzles.  a lot of the puzzles are the kind of puzzle your grandfather or uncle will say after dinner during a family gathering etc (the kind that get carried over through generations by word of mouth, and have different variations etc).  they are almost entirely unrelated to the story (except for the obvious fact that everybody in the mysterious village loves puzzles and professor layton and luke love solving them) but extremely enjoyable.  the story, the music, the characters are totally lovable and very compelling.  it reminds me of the work of studio ghibli and also european cinema like bellville rendezvouz (the bellville triplets) if you've seen it.  i still play the game every week to download the new puzzles.  i cannot tell you how much i love this game and how highly i'm anticipating the rest of them to be localised

edit:  i forgot to say i have often given puzzles i took directly from this game to my students and they enjoy them very much (a lot more than their physics homework)

edgecrusher said:

Its hard for me to get pumped to play a handheld game, when I know I could be playing a game on my TV with surround sound. Every good game that comes out on handheld I say "Man I wish that was on consoles".

Generally I agree with that, but there's a few genres that I think work really well on a handheld that aren't enhanced by a bigger screen.  Puzzle games and adventure games quickly jump out.  No matter how good the graphic are on a game like Tetris it still doesn't change much.

Plus, there's something to be said for being able to play the same game anywhere you want to go.  Sitting in a floaty chair in the pool while playing the DS is damn near a religious experience.

That all being said, RPGs should never appear on a handheld.