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Re: Omega Labyrinth (English Patched) VITA

John Hummel — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 11:33:44 -0000

Usually the method is:

* I'm assuming you've hacked it with Enso or the like.
* You want this plugin: https://github.com/TheOfficialFloW/NoNpDrm
* Then take the contents of the NoDPDrm version and copy them to /ux0:/apps , so in this case copy PCSG00550 to ux0:/apps/PCSG00550.

You'll have to refresh your main menu with a tool like VitaShell, and then it should be there.

Re: Princess Crown (English Patched) Saturn ISO

John Hummel — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 14:12:37 -0000

I salute your timing and thank you for getting this up so soon.

Re: Princess Crown (English Patched) Saturn ISO

John Hummel — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 12:18:04 -0000

This is amazing. I was annoyed for some time about the people announcing "Oh we're totally working on this" then refused to release their homework for anyone else to use. So good on them. It likely needs more work but this is cool.

Re: US steam

John Hummel — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 18:10:30 -0000

Just when I was about to buy Songs of Conquest.....

Re: hpp-index

John Hummel — Wed, 06 Jan 2021 06:58:51 -0000

thank you

Re: Sega Saturn Sakura Wars Fan Translation Is Completed And Now Available

John Hummel — Sun, 12 Jan 2020 17:21:04 -0000

IDK if anyone answered you, but what I wound up doing is copying over the save game files, then naming them Disk 2.

For example, if Disk 1 is "SW_Eng_Disc1_v1", and disk 2 is "SW_Eng_Disc2_v1", then copy all of your save files named SW_Eng_Disc1_v1.* to SW_Eng_Disc2_v1.* and you can continue playing.

Let me know if that answered the question.

Re: Labyrinth of Refrain: Coven of Dusk (Region Free) PC

John Hummel — Sun, 28 Oct 2018 18:31:25 -0000

I'm having an issue with these files. I've checked the MD5 hash, and both the Mega and mediafire seem the same. However, I'm getting errors on file 4 and 6, and the final ISO is only 500 MB in size. Could we have a recheck to make sure the files are correct?

I see the issue - I opened up the archive, and it's showing 3 copies of the .ISO file according to 7-zip: the first two are 500 MB, the last one is 1.5 G. Odds are the archive files got mangled a little. Just FYI.

Edit 2: Further testing - the Mega files for 1, 2, and 3 show the same MD5 hash: aa91099772159da9400eb7a37560a37a . MediaFile shows 1 as that, but 2 as b6faf3848a49fb2b9a46bc2575cd1e75 and 3 as 61d5e003133625db76722f280d17bc46 . I'm betting Mega messed up the files for some reason.

Re: Shining Resonance (JPN) PS3 ISO

John Hummel — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 10:12:14 -0000

This is getting a US release on the PS4 sometime this year, if I recall correctly.

Re: The Legend of Heroes: Zero no Kiseki (CHI) PC

John Hummel — Sat, 20 Jan 2018 10:58:46 -0000

There's a patch in progress for the PSP versions. Hopefully that work will come to the PC version. Even better would be if XSeed would do an English version.

Re: Friday Contest: Giving Away 5 Copies of Tyranny and Pillars of Eternity

John Hummel — Sun, 28 May 2017 14:28:28 -0000

Hi. Does this count? Thanks. Good luck! https://uploads.disquscdn.c...

Re: Spoony & Diamanda Hagan – Sting: Moment of Truth

John Hummel — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 08:31:11 -0000

You had better give us a review of Halam - a Stripling Warrior story now. As an ex-mo, trust me - I need to see what insanity was cooked up.

Re: Fact check: Romney's welfare claims wrong

John Hummel — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 09:57:48 -0000

Ah, yes - the Nevada line where it clearly states "Hey, we're working to get people off of welfare and into work by giving them six months to help them stabilize so they can get back to work."

So it's a violation of the "welfare to work" program by helping people - get into a circumstance where they can get back to work. Makes perfect sense.

Re: Fact check: Romney's welfare claims wrong

John Hummel — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 09:56:14 -0000

The language from the executive order:

>Thus, HHS has authority to waive compliance with this 402 requirement and authorize a state to test approaches and methods other than those set forth in section 407, including definitions of work activities and engagement, specified limitations, verification procedures, and the calculation of participation rates. As described below, however, HHS will only consider approving waivers relating to the work participation requirements that make changes intended to lead to more effective means of meeting the work goals of TANF.

The waver clearly states "...HHS will only consider approving waivers relating to the work participation requirements that make changes intended to lead to more effective means of meeting the work goals of TANF." Sorry - but you don't get to claim "he's allowing people to not to have welfare to work!" when the requirement clearly spells out "You can't get a waver unless you include a welfare to work system."

Re: Fact check: Romney's welfare claims wrong

John Hummel — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 09:54:32 -0000

Oh so close! There's one problem, however:

>Those waivers were granted by Obama.

BEEEP! Sorry, the process is:

1. Obama released an executive order stating that wavers *could* be granted when the states made their offer, *as long as it includes a welfare to work requirement that was as good if not better than the current requirement*.

2. No wavers have been granted yet.

So why don't we wait until we see what States come up with, and *if* their plan is "just give people money without a plan of getting them off of Welfare", and *if* the federal government approves, *then* we can talk about what wavers were actually granted. Right now, the current language states:

Yeah. doesn't look like your claim holds any water.

Re: Ultima 9: Ascension (Part 2)

John Hummel — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 13:19:29 -0000

Just to add to the excitement:

I still haven't played IX. I think I did about 5 minutes of the "run around the Avatar's house on Earth" stuff, and then quit.

But - betrayal is the right word here. I grew up on Ultima. I started playing Ultima III back when they were bootlegging the 5.25" disks for the Apple II computers (where if you used a hold puncher you could make them too sided oh hell yeah), and Ultima IV changed my life.

I'm serious. I was a kid raised in a religious fundamentalist home, and that game gave me another way of looking at the world that my brainwashing kept out. Instead of a wrathful god who was going to kill me for even thinking about a nekked girl - there was this idea that you could base decisions off of simple virtues: upholding Truth, Courage and Love. Perhaps no better than some philosophies - but it helped.

And to wade through Ultima VIII, and then see what happened in Ultima IX. Yeah. Betrayal. It could have been a great story of someone redeeming themselves after destroying an entire world to save two, or of someone who has reached the pinnacle of existence sacrificing it all.

But - no. And for that, we mourn.

Re: Kidnapped for Christ: documentary about children whose parents rendered them to offshore militarized discipline camp

John Hummel — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:59:38 -0000

And this is relevant because - why? Last time I checked, the Waldorf doesn't engage in human rights violation and torture as depicted in some of these military Jesus "cure the gay out of you" camps. Worse thing you'd wind up getting at the Waldorf is - an education.

Re: Alabama Republican Senator: Low teacher pay mandated by God

John Hummel — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:35:18 -0000

Perhaps they should be. Might be a way to either increase pay or keep classes sizes smaller.

Re: Notorious Nigerian witch-hunter to preach in the US

John Hummel — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 11:15:51 -0000

Well, you know, they want to be part of your world. All it costs is your voice bwahahahaha.

Re: Zombie Lane: Grind, baby, Grind

John Hummel — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 06:06:08 -0000

Too bad - this reminds me of the recent Tim Rogers article on "social gaming", and how the developers are doing anything and everything they can to get you hooked so you hand over that "real world" money.

Seems like these guys went to far into the "hey isn't it annoying to wait for stuff? Pay us!" model and broke the game.

Re: Tricks of the Gamer Dad

John Hummel — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:58:38 -0000

Thanks - it's hard sometimes to be honest. When you're only 15 minutes until the "no electronics deadline" and the children are running around the house screaming, it's soooo tempting to say "Screw it I want quiet!"

But I'm still glad I do it.

Re: How to get a gaming laptop on the cheap

John Hummel — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 22:28:07 -0000

But - I like gaming my my Apple....

But seriously - excellent planning!

Re: "Tea Party Zombies Must Die" Shocks Masses, Still a Terrible Video Game

John Hummel — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 16:59:32 -0000

But I thought FOX and the Tea Party believed in a) the Constitution (which allows freedom of expression), and b) the free market. So if they don't like this, don't buy it and nobody would care.

Right? Or is this different because "But it makes fun of *us*! And Jesus, because he's the only zombie worthy of worship!"?

Re: Blag Hag: The church for gamer geeks

John Hummel — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 16:49:27 -0000

Hah - I love that idea. If you do it, let me know.

Re: Blag Hag: The church for gamer geeks

John Hummel — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:11:29 -0000

I'm always kind of torn by folks like these. On the one side, they're trying to be helpful, to be relevant to the times.

I do like your concept on Zelda or Mario. I've been having my daughter read the Bible and the Tezuka Buddha manga series, and explaining "The stories likely aren't true, like the creation, Isrealites building the pyramids, the 10 plagues. But these are great stories, and some of them hold useful lessons. The problem is when you're more worried about proving them 'true' as it is deciding if they're telling you about something 'good' or 'bad' - and even then, if they're getting it right."

There could be some interesting games based on Bible literature - but too often the people interested in those are too busy moralizing than they are in either being entertaining or even ethically right.

Re: Duels of the Planeswalkers, or how I learned to stop worrying and love Magic again.

John Hummel — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 20:48:44 -0000

Did you pick up the Xbox or the PC version? I've never played Magic and was wondering if this was a good way to get into it.