Archive for August, 2008
REVIEW:Guitar Hero On Tour for Nintendo DS
Guess what, my Guitar Hero On Tour for the Nintendo DS that I ordered a week ago has finally arrived at my doorstep. I bought the game online at a site call Play-Asia.com which is where I bought some of my console gaming accessories.
It’s a little bit cheaper when compairing to local price, I bought it online because I have funds in my PayPal account and it’s useless if I leave it there since I can’t withdraw it out yet. It has now takes one week time for the free delivery of the parcel to arrived. It was two weeks when many many months ago.
The box is not as huge as I thought. It’s just the size of two Nintendo DS game box.
Opening the box, I came across a few things. The main guitar grip with four buttons which require you to plug into the GameBoy cartridge slot, the game’s manual, sticker for for the grip or you want to stick it somewhere else and an adapter for plugging in the grip on the old phat Nintendo DS.
I can’t find the special pick stylus at first and then I remembered it is stick to the guitar grip when I saw some video on YouTube.
I’m glad as this is actually my first purchase of Nintendo DS oringal title. At the moment, I am playing games off the flashcart where all the roms are save into it.
I got to say that one of the reason I bought Nintendo DS for myself was because of the release of Guitar Hero On Tour. Even the tracks are limited to only 26 tracks, yet this is quite nice to play on the go. Plug in the grip, put in the cartridge, turn it on and you are ready to jam.
I dislike the game that the grip is being lose, it’s quite easy get detached from the Nintendo DS when you are jamming too fast and it require you to make a restart of the game in order to continue playing. You can’t just so, repluggin the grip and continue playing.
Here’s a complete new soundtrack which will not be available on the console version of Guitar Hero, most of them are literally new pop song and only some oldies rock.
Tier 1 - Subway:
- Ok Go - “Do What You Want”
- No Doubt - “Spiderwebs”
- Jet - “Are You Gonna Be my Girl”
- Blink 182 - “All the Small Things”
- Twisted Sister - “We’re Not Gonna Take it”
Tier 2 - Rooftop:
- Nirvana - “Breed”
- Smash Mouth - “All Star”
- Rick Springfield - “Jessie’s Girl”
- Pat Benatar - “Hit Me With Your Best Shot”
- Maroon 5 - “This Love”
Tier 3 - Parade:
- Los Lonely Boys - “Heaven”
- Bloc Party - “Helicopter”
- The Doobie Brothers - “China Grove”
- KISS (cover by Line 6) - “Rock and Roll All Nite”
- Daughtry - “What I Want”
Tier 4 - Greek Arena:
- Steve Miller Band (cover by Wavegroup) - “Jet Airliner”
- Santana (cover by Line 6) - “Black Magic Woman”
- Stray Cats - “Stray Cat Strut”
- ZZ Top (cover by Line 6) - “La Grange”
- Skid Row (cover by Wavegroup) - “Youth Gone Wild”
Tier 5 - Battleship:
- Ozzy Osbourne - “I Don’t Want to Stop”
- Incubus - “Anna Molly”
- Red Hot Chili Peppers - “Knock me Down”
- Stevie Ray Vaughan - “Pride And Joy”
- Lynyrd Skynyrd (cover by Wavegroup) - “I Know A Little”
Bonus
- Freezepop - “I Am Not Your Gameboy”
You hold the Nintendo DS vertically with your left arm strapping onto the guitar grip, your right hand is to “strum” the string on the touch screen. I felt quite uncomfortable with my arm when I first play with it, it’s better to rest your arm on the desk when playing but after some times, it’s feeling nice to play the game.
When activating Star Power, you don’t tilt your Nintendo DS, instead you need to shout “Rock On” through the microphone. It’s so silly but I will not do so, just blow through the microphone and the Star Power will be activated.
I’m the only one among my friends who own the game so I am not able to try out the multiplayer mode yet. It seems to be fun but let me finish all the track on all level except easy first.
Now I can jam wherever and whenever I want on the run and go on the train and bus and car!
Jailbreak 1.1.4 iPhone and iPod touch easily with ZiPhone
I have just help a friend of mine to jailbreak his iPod touch with 1.1.4 firmware. I didn’t want to upgrade to 2.0 for him because he doesn’t have a credit card to sign up for an iTunes Music Store account which is needed to download apps in App Store even it’s free.
iPod touch or old iPhone with 1.1.4 firmware is actually quite easy to jailbreak. Since, jailbreakme.com on 1.1.4 doesn’t work, you need to find an alternative solution on jailbreaking it.
Go download ZiPhone, a program that will jailbreak your iPod or iPhone with just a click in few minutes. The best of this program is you do not need to downgrade your machine. It just run some codes in your machine and in minutes, you will see Installer in your springboard. Besides that, your song library will be still there too.
It’s not like last time when I jailbreak the 1.1.2, I had to downgrade it first to 1.1.1, then run jailbreakme.com and then again upgrade back to 1.1.2. All the files wer gone too.
Jailbreaking your iPod and iPhone is voiding your Apple warranty. Do it at your own risk and please support Apple’s original software. Cheer! I just love Apple a lot.
By the way, iPod touch and iPhone without apps is just an useless shit. Don’t you agree with me?
My new 018 U Mobile Prepaid simpack
U Mobile is a new mobile telco in Malaysia, it was formerly known as MiTV and it’s still own by MiTV by Berjaya. 018 is their prefix and it’s still quite new and still in the process of setting up cell tower and expanding its coverage all over Malaysia. Over months, their postpaid service is only available in Klang Valley where Kuala Lumpur is. 3G and data service too is not available in other states except Klang Valley.
I got a friend that was a Beta tester for 018 told me that U Mobile is more to be focus on data and Mobile Digital TV or known as DVB-H (Digital Video Broadcast-Handheld) and they are one of the few telco that was awarded with 3G spectrum license few years back.
U Mobile still does not have a lot of cell tower all over Malaysia, when you are outside Kuala Lumpur, U Mobile will ride on Celcom’s line via a national roaming service at 0 cost. This mean you still be able to make call at the normal rate but no 3G and data for you.
So I thought about this, why not go get a prepaid for fun in Kuala Lumpur. I am still able to use it in Penang but it’s just no 3G for me. In a forum, a forumer guided that there’s actually shop here in Penang has started taking in U Mobile prepaid, though there’s still not any U Store in Penang yet. There will be one in Queensbay Mall but it’s still under renovation yet. After looking around in the mall, I have found a shop has the prepaid simpack. I planned to get a nice number but turned out all the number is just so-so only.
U Mobile Prepaid simpack is really free for everyone with RM1 credit. You just picked your desired simpack number, fill in the prepaid registration form and you are ready to go. Remember to buy a reload coupon as you need to reload your mobile credit in 7 days time to prevent line termination. Activation was pretty fast for me, after the shop dealer registered my line, it’s activated within half an hour.
On my Samsung phone it shows My Celcom as the operator, I assumed it is roaming on other network. However, when I switch it to a Nokia phone, it shows U Mobile on the screen. At the moment, I got no idea what to do with this new phone number, no GPRS for me, no MMS for me, it’s only call and SMS.
The call rate is 0.8cent/second = 48cents/minute which is rather expensive than other prepaid service, though it’s second based that means that you pay on the seconds of call you have made. SMS rate is at 8cent/sms to all network in Malaysia, this is consider cheaper than all other telco but there’s not premium service like Friends and Family or Activ5/10 on Digi and Maxis. Perhaps it’s still a new mobile, I am expecting more feature and service to come.
I’m actually hoping for cheap unlimited data rate, cheap call rate, SMS rate, MMS rate and the most I am looking forward to is still their data service. Let’s wait and see how do they do.
By the way, I have 3 mobile number now, Maxis, Digi and U, I still lack of Celcom and Happy. But it’s just for fun, Maxis and Digi still serve as my primary number.
