modding(LEGALLY)

[Mournson]

Wow, that's decent modding right there.
I wouldn't mind having a light up GH3 controller.

yeah well, I just ran into a Major problem with the lighted design, I'm not sure if it'll work because of the supports on the inside for the buttons and circuit board. but I'll still give it a try

[Mikero]

I think that would be the first thing I'd check for when doing something like that...

[Captain Sanoguchi]

I have seen so many cool Ds's one had a Zelda trifoce symbol on it.

Those are made by Nintendo, they're sold in a bundle with Phantom Hour Glass, it isn't a mod.

[preventerWIND]

I have seen so many cool Ds's one had a Zelda trifoce symbol on it.

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Can there be like, a comma in that sentance? Plox?

[Mikero]

I've seen so many cool DS'. One had a Triforce on it!

[Captain Sanoguchi]

No, dude, it's the trifoce, it's straight up gangsta.

[Mournson]

I think that would be the first thing I'd check for when doing something like that...

allow me a brain fart? I honestly didn't think of that, but I also haven't layed a design, so I could always work with the space given, maybe even take a couple of chunks out of the frame work, who knows.

[MOX]

Here's the skin that I designed and got printed by Decal girl for my DS months ago, I posted it on the last board too. The skin right now is still holding up pretty good.

[Captain Sanoguchi]

Nice, dude, nice.

[Jakey]

That's pretty fresh.

[ChaosVortex]

Dude, that's sexy.

I'd like to find a decal like that in blue.

[Captain Sanoguchi]

So MOX, how exactly did you make that?

[NovaMan XP]

Apparently from something called Decal Girl.

You probably send your DS in and they do the rest.

[Abominator]

How is that nice?

I loathe things like that, with the huge gaps around the speakers and the buttons...

Mank.

[Captain Sanoguchi]

Jealous.

[MOX]

On Decal Girl there's a .psd file for the template which you can edit. Yeah I don't like the square cut-out around the speakers either, It might look better if there were just hole cut-outs for the speakers instead but that would be really hard to put on. I'm still happy that the skin makes my scratched DS look newer at least.

[Captain Sanoguchi]

Oh, that's cool. I'd like to do something like that one day.

[Mikero]

How is that nice?

I loathe things like that, with the huge gaps around the speakers and the buttons...

Mank.

Agreed.

Also the design you used is cool, MOX, but it's not the style I'd rock on my DS. No offense, because it IS a cool design. Just not for a DS in my opinion. It's more of a design for a website or something.

On Decal Girl there's a .psd file for the template which you can edit. Yeah I don't like the square cut-out around the speakers either, It might look better if there were just hole cut-outs for the speakers instead but that would be really hard to put on. I'm still happy that the skin makes my scratched DS look newer at least.

Actually if it was just hole cutouts that were totally flush against the sides of the buttons and those rubbery bumber things at the top, then you'd probably be able to get it on perfect because it could only fit the one way. But that's a shot in the dark.

[MOX]

Yeah, I didn't really want to do a a detailed skin that would stick out too much from the silver (but couldn't help it) so I just picked the color yellow (dark skin colors on a silver DS stick out too much for me). Later I'm planning to just design a white skin for my DS with some simple designs on it that would blend in better with the silver. Personally now I think some white skin with some simple shapes or something would look good on my DS.

[Mikero]

This is my GH guitar. Just a few stickers, 'cause I like the white on black.

The bottom picture is a sticker I have on my portfolio that I got at a show by a local punk band my friend kind of manages. But one of the members is going to uni in BC so their last show is on saturday, if I can get a smaller version of that stick or something I'd add it to my guitar (or "wiitar" if you're one of those people) and then that's probably it.

[Johncarllos]

My GH2 guitar has no stock stickers, they are all from bands or something else.

I decided against the fret stickers because even though they look cool, they slow down the fast fretting and peel. Not bad at all, the 3 stars around the base of the neck are tasteful, as well as the unexpected star on the Wii Remote.

[Mikero]

I was OCD careful putting on the fret stickers so I don't think they'll peel. Also, I make sure I can still kind of feel that line on the yellow one, but I couldn't really feel it while playing before I put those on. The Wii remote stickers (there's a bigger star one on the back between the B button and sensor) are also there so when I go to a friends I can identify my remotes, my other remote has the stars pointing the opposite direction (essentially). One of the small stars on the guitar started peeling almost right away though, I think I might've bent it while putting it on or something but I'm reluctant to replace it.

[Johncarllos]

I hated the bump on the yellow fret when getting good, it killed my fingers. Once I got to expert, I had my pinky on the orange and index on the red, so my middle finger got killed by it.

[Mikero]

The main reason I suck at medium is that it feels weird to use my pinky and I'm not used to shifting over from blue to red and such.

[Johncarllos]

You'll get used to it, just eek by on all the songs you can and you'll be used to it in a week. Don't bother 5 starring anything, just beat them. Then go 5 star the easy songs, then start on hard and 5 star medium songs, then whatever you want after that. It was MY starting formula, and I beat hard in 2 weeks, and expert in a month and a half.

Of course, I played between 1/2 hour and 5 hours a day. Normally no more than 3 though. And you're busy, so I find it entirely acceptable.

[Mikero]

Some songs don't seem to give me money anymore, in easy. Does it have a limit?

[Johncarllos]

When you 5 Star a song, you've gotten all you can get from it.
You get a grand total of X, lets say 1000 dollars for 5 starring a song. You start by 3 starring it for 400 $, then you get 4 stars on it and get another 250, then you 5 star it and it finishes off with 350 for a total of 1000, which you'd have gotten if you 5 starred it the first time.

Bonus songs do not give you money.
Songs on easy give you what, 600 total? I think so.
Songs on Expert give you like 15,000-20,000, I can't remember.

I think it also relates difficulty wise, too, if you can 5 star an easy song for 600, you can barely pass a song on hard for 600, or 4 star a song on medium for 600.

It's all about the stars.

Also, when you beat a song on a high level in GH3, it doesn't give you the cash for the lower levels like it did in GH2. This annoyed me because I had to beat all the easy and medium levels to get my cash.

So Mike, yes, there IS a limit.

[Abominator]

I've done all of Easy to at least 4 stars now...

The step up to Medium is tricky to say the least.

[Mikero]

I was surprised the medium version of Slow Ride is as different as it is.

[ASR]

When the novelty of Rock Band dies down, I'm gonna' pop GH3 back into the 360 and see how far I can get again. I have to start over, I've got a new 360 now.

[Mikero]

That's what I don't like about hard drives in console gaming.

[ASR]

Apparently they sell memory cards for it, but that's something I wish I'd known beforehand. They really don't do a good job of advertising alternate forms of memory storage.

It's not a big deal, since the GH3 save was the only real valuable one on there.

[Mikero]

All I know is that with the Wii it's kind of annoying using external memory. I don't even know if a game can access a save file directly from the SD (or whatever) card or if you have to copy the data to the hard drive to play. Not that it comes up a lot.

[ASR]

No Wii software can access the SD Card directly... it's just for temporary storage.
You need to transfer a stored save file OFF of the SD and back onto the Wii HD if you want to play from it.

It bugs me, really. Quite a bit.
I'm also scared about the VC Games, because apparently they're registered DIRECTLY to your individual Wii, so if the console is damaged, you need to go through a bunch of crap on the phone with Nintendo to get the rights back to everything you bought.

[Jakey]

When the novelty of Rock Band dies down, I'm gonna' pop GH3 back into the 360 and see how far I can get again. I have to start over, I've got a new 360 now.

Rock Band is not a novelty, Rock Band will live foreverrrrrr...

[Mikero]

No Wii software can access the SD Card directly... it's just for temporary storage.
You need to transfer a stored save file OFF of the SD and back onto the Wii HD if you want to play from it.

It bugs me, really. Quite a bit.
I'm also scared about the VC Games, because apparently they're registered DIRECTLY to your individual Wii, so if the console is damaged, you need to go through a bunch of crap on the phone with Nintendo to get the rights back to everything you bought.

I understand why for both of those, but it sucks.

[Johncarllos]

ASR, can't you just jam in a USB flash drive to save games onto?
I heard of somebody who plugged in their USB MP3 player and played songs from it while he played a game, so I think you could save to it....

[ASR]

Nope, believe me I have tried and tried again. I still have the old save data on the other hard drive, but my younger brother has since claimed it, filled it with over 48 hours worth of COD4 data, and would whine if I took it back. I'd rather replay through the game than go out and buy a memory card.
So, yeah, basically, we now own two 360's due to a long 4 months of problems concerning the Red Ring of Death in which we gave up and bought a new one, intending to sell the old one when it returned, and other crazy antics that led to my very own 360.

[Mournson]

wow, out of a complete waste of money and time, I feel like buting a GH guitar and modding it out with some lighting and a nice tribal. and not even the game, maybe I'll sell it. but it has alot os surface space. hey anyone interested in a custome GH guitar?

[Mikero]

What's tibal?

Which system is the guitar for?

[Johncarllos]

If you make a clear faceplate, you can take out some pegs and put the lights right in the old peg holes.

[Mournson]

I ment tribal, I was in a rush. an di'm not sure what kind, most likely ps2 or xbox since I have no way to test the others, sept maybe 360.

and JC, I'm thinking of just directly modding the original hardware, it'd be much easier than a face plate.

[preventerWIND]

Speaking of modding, I kind of screwed myself, I bought my friends old PSone, and had my hopes up for chiping it, unfortunately I hear nobody does that anymore, so chances are I'm going to have to chip it myself. And I'd probably(most definitely) screw up.

[Someguy]

Speaking of modding, I kind of screwed myself, I bought my friends old PSone, and had my hopes up for chiping it, unfortunately I hear nobody does that anymore, so chances are I'm going to have to chip it myself. And I'd probably(most definitely) screw up.

I bet that friend of yours is laughing right now

[preventerWIND]

I bet he is. Maybe I'll ask that friend to knock a couple bucks off of the final price?

[Someguy]

Depends if you can get that plug in mod chip or not.

[preventerWIND]

It's just a 9000 block memory card, dude.

[Someguy]

With save manager and Ps1 unlocking abilities! I'll  buy it for the sake of wasting money, if it works it's yours. Anyways the most modding I ever did was to my Psp, I tried cleaning the faceplate inside and ended up with a scratch on the glass area of the faceplate, yay

[preventerWIND]

*sigh*

Alright, just as long as you're buyin'.