Past News Archive: August 2005
August 29, 2005
I've been Fate/Stay Night crazy these days. The end of last week, I received the newly released Fate/Stay Night trading figures (& they look mighty impressive just by looking at them without assembling them) & the 1/6 Saber PVC figurine today (you wouldn't believe the hell I went through to finally get this) from the mail. Currently, they are still in there boxes or bags. I'll be displaying them some time this week if I have time. I need to put back my PVC swimsuit figures in their boxes since summer is almost over. If I have time, I'll write up a review of my new Fate/Stay toys. Also, I recently picked up the Methodology of English, The Academic Necessity (aka Moe-Tan) gasahpon set from my local hobby store.
Hopefully this week I can put up some more stuff in the Collectables section. If I have time, maybe I've write some more reviews for the Anime section on anime series I finished watching over this past summer. Although I hardly get any hits here, I'm doing this pretty much for personal learning experience as I mentioned before.
August 25, 2005
A major update, even though I'm not really getting a lot of hits here. I added some reviews from the Collection section. Some of the active links are still dead since I don't have the reviews for them yet. I finally used my scanner to scan some pics for the reviews. You can tell what I scan based on the sizes of the pics. The follow reviews have been added:
A word of warning for 56k users, there are quite a few pics in the reviews.
Around 5 - 8 average. Also, you may notice bad photography skills & minor
photo colour problems. I have no skills as a photographer, so I apologize
for the poor quality. ^_^; If there are problems of the images not
showing up or dead, please let me know. I actually didn't spend the time
to check all of them.
August 24, 2005
Last night (PST time zone), Sony America finally released firmware version 2.00. So all you North American PSP owners that haven't know yet, now you can finally get it! It has been confirmed that people that updated with the JPN 2.0 can't overwrite it with the NA version. People proclaim that they are the same. However that same day, Sony Japan released another update; version 2.00! Sources say that the new JPN 2.00 is exactly the same as the NA one in terms of the MD5 packets. The old JPN 2.00 has different packets from the current one. So, there might be a difference between the July 2.00 to the new 2.00. Although, nothing has been confirm that there is a difference in features.
Not really a update but in other news, I managed to decrease the file sizes of my pics for the Collection section. And I decreased it by a LOT! However, there are still 640X480 in size, but the decrease in file size has lowered the quality of the pics a bit. From what I seen, it's mostly the background or a very slight change in colour tone. Except some of my collection reviews to appear some time this week.
August 17, 2005
Finally an update after over a month! A minor one though. There are some reviews in the Anime section now. I wanted to put up some the collectable reviews, but I have some problems with it at the moment.
Because of the size of my collection, I took quite a few pictures. I have done some reviews already, but uploading the pictures is a problem. On average, 1 collectables review has a total of over 5 MB of pictures. Because I'm using free web hosting for pictures, their storage space is small. About 20 MB. So, I can't put pictures up & need to delay that section for awhile. However, you can see what my collection is. Although there are links attach to some of them, they are dead links. I could upload the reviews without the pictures, but it probably won't work. Why? What is good about a collectable review if you can't see pictures of it?
Although I have plans to update this site since it is starting to move a bit (look at that counter go!), I probably won't update it too often. Right now, my sister & I are in the process of opening an online Anime collectables store. The store will be opening sometime in September & I encourage all anime fans to check us out when it goes up, especially the Canadian fans. Of course, we welcome all other fans outside of Canada as well! I'll put the link here when our business is ready to go! Stay tuned!