Thursday, May 2, 2013
Japanese Arcade Game of the Day - 002: Dragon Ball Z (Awakening Super Saiyan)
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JAGOD, or Japanese Arcade Game of the Day is a video series where I will be playing a Japanese arcade game every day I have a chance, and showing you the results. This Japanese arcade game of the day episode includes Dragon Ball Z Awakening Super Saiyan. (Chou Saiyan Kakusei.)
I didn't get to play my favorite Dragon Ball Z Character, Vegetta - but I did get to blast a Kame Hame Ha mid-air. Look for that one after the halfway point of the video. This game is very involved and there are a ton of controls. It was my first time playing this Dragon Ball game, so I apologize if I suck at it.
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Saturday, April 27, 2013
Japanese Arcade Game Of The Day: Crane Catcher - Bracelets and tiny shoes.
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JAGOD, or Japanese Arcade Game of the Day is a video series where I will be playing a Japanese arcade game every day I have a chance and showing you the results. This Japanese arcade game of the day episode includes a crane catcher also known as a UFO catcher. The prizes are not exactly my style, but maybe you will like it. Sadly, I lost anyway. Oh well. Maybe next time.
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Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Walking the Streets of Japan: Niigata, Furumachi - Episode 1
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This is a pilot for a new series called Streets of Japan. The idea is that I will walk through various streets of Japan and record as I go, talking about what I see and explaining what I can. The first streets of Japan I plan to walk through are in Niigata, since that is where I live. If the series becomes popular, I will go to other places and even visit points of interest, buildings or possibly businesses.
Streets of Japan has no current schedule for release, but if the series is popular enough, I will consider every other week. If it becomes very popular, I will make it more often and perhaps buy a better camera/microphone.
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Friday, April 12, 2013
Getting a Japanese Driver's License.
Here is my story about how I managed to get my Driver's License in Japan.
These videos include scenery and places in Japan while I tell you stories or explain something about my life in Japan, or experiences in Japanese culture. Get yourself some popcorn and enjoy the story and insight into life in Japan.
First thing I talk about is the Subaru Stella's Echo Idle. The 2012 Subaru Stella has a feature that saves gas by shutting off the engine while you are stopped at lights and in traffic, then seamlessly starting back up when you let go of the brake pedal.
After the echo idle tangent, I go into explaining how I got my driver's license in Japan. Getting a driver's license in Japan if you are from England, New Zealand, Australia or many other countries is easy. You just translate your driver's license and take a written test. Pass the test and you get a Japanese driver's license. Getting a Japanese driver's license if you are American is not so easy.
If you want to be successful in Japan, having a Japanese driver's license is a great tool to use on your road to climbing the success ladder in Japan. You should do it, but if you are American, expect a difficult path. Americans must take the practical driving test in order to get a Japanese driver's license. Depending on what Prefecture in Japan you live, This test can be quite difficult to pass. Here is my story about my six failed tests to get my Japan driver's license, and how I was lucky to even get it on my seventh attempt.
Hope you enjoy.
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These videos include scenery and places in Japan while I tell you stories or explain something about my life in Japan, or experiences in Japanese culture. Get yourself some popcorn and enjoy the story and insight into life in Japan.
First thing I talk about is the Subaru Stella's Echo Idle. The 2012 Subaru Stella has a feature that saves gas by shutting off the engine while you are stopped at lights and in traffic, then seamlessly starting back up when you let go of the brake pedal.
After the echo idle tangent, I go into explaining how I got my driver's license in Japan. Getting a driver's license in Japan if you are from England, New Zealand, Australia or many other countries is easy. You just translate your driver's license and take a written test. Pass the test and you get a Japanese driver's license. Getting a Japanese driver's license if you are American is not so easy.
If you want to be successful in Japan, having a Japanese driver's license is a great tool to use on your road to climbing the success ladder in Japan. You should do it, but if you are American, expect a difficult path. Americans must take the practical driving test in order to get a Japanese driver's license. Depending on what Prefecture in Japan you live, This test can be quite difficult to pass. Here is my story about my six failed tests to get my Japan driver's license, and how I was lucky to even get it on my seventh attempt.
Hope you enjoy.
Please like and subscribe to support my 4 hours of video work per month.
Thanks for watching. If you like these videos even a little, Please spread the butter on the bread! and by butter I mean the videos, and by bread I mean the social network of your choice. Share it wherever you share things, like it when you do, post your comments and show me your Nerdswagger.
Stay Creative, It's Good For You.
Thursday, April 11, 2013
Bioshock Infinite Crash Fix List
This is a list of Bioshock Infinite crashes by type and their
corresponding fixes. If you have a crash, and/or fix not listed here,
please leave a comment. I will add more fixes as I have time.
Bioshock Infinite General Crash Fixes:
These are general fixes anyone can do for any general crash.
Grinning Studios: General Crash Fixes
Bioshock Infinite Startup Crashes:
These fixes are for when the Bioshock Infinit crashes at startup before any display occurs.
Grinning Studios: Crash before menu fix (Xgame.ini tweaks.)
Bioshock Infinite Menu Crashes:
These Fixes are for crashes that occur at the menu screen or just before the menu screen.
Grinning Studios: I7 Processor random crash fix.
Bioshock Infinite Random Freezing and Crashes:
These fixes are for freezing and crashes that happen randomly while playing the game.
Bioshock Infinite Save Game problems:
If you are getting corrupt save games, these fixes might help.
Grinning Studios: How to Back Up your Bioshock Infinite Game Saves.
Bioshock Infinite Video/framerate problems:
Fixes for improving framerate and video glitches.
Bioshock Infinite Tweaks:
Tricks and edits you can do to the game to improve performance.
Bioshock Infinite Hacks and cheats:
For the player who wants to modify the game with cheats, mods, or hacks. You have your reasons... no judgement here.
Grinning Studios: How to play Bioshock Infinite without Steam.
Bioshock Infinite Tips, Tricks, Hints, and Easter-eggs:
For players stuck in areas, trying to get all the extra features, gamer achievements or just want to know the most efficient ways to play the game, try these links.
Your links:
If you have a particularly valuable tip, hint, blog post, fix, mod or anything you want to share, make a comment and I may add it here.
Please let me know if any of this works for you or doesn't work for you so I can make sure I am giving correct information or change the information to help more people. Thanks, and good luck.
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Bioshock Infinite Crash Fixes and Useful Tweaks List
Bioshock Infinite General Crash Fixes:
These are general fixes anyone can do for any general crash.
Grinning Studios: General Crash Fixes
Bioshock Infinite Startup Crashes:
These fixes are for when the Bioshock Infinit crashes at startup before any display occurs.
Grinning Studios: Crash before menu fix (Xgame.ini tweaks.)
Bioshock Infinite Menu Crashes:
These Fixes are for crashes that occur at the menu screen or just before the menu screen.
Grinning Studios: I7 Processor random crash fix.
Bioshock Infinite Random Freezing and Crashes:
These fixes are for freezing and crashes that happen randomly while playing the game.
Bioshock Infinite Save Game problems:
If you are getting corrupt save games, these fixes might help.
Grinning Studios: How to Back Up your Bioshock Infinite Game Saves.
Bioshock Infinite Video/framerate problems:
Fixes for improving framerate and video glitches.
Bioshock Infinite Tweaks:
Tricks and edits you can do to the game to improve performance.
Bioshock Infinite Hacks and cheats:
For the player who wants to modify the game with cheats, mods, or hacks. You have your reasons... no judgement here.
Grinning Studios: How to play Bioshock Infinite without Steam.
Bioshock Infinite Tips, Tricks, Hints, and Easter-eggs:
For players stuck in areas, trying to get all the extra features, gamer achievements or just want to know the most efficient ways to play the game, try these links.
Your links:
If you have a particularly valuable tip, hint, blog post, fix, mod or anything you want to share, make a comment and I may add it here.
Please let me know if any of this works for you or doesn't work for you so I can make sure I am giving correct information or change the information to help more people. Thanks, and good luck.
Please Do...
If any of this information has helped you, please spread the butter on the bread! and by butter I mean this post or this website, and by bread I mean the social network or blog of you choice. Leave a comment down below, make a donation if you are feeling generous (link in the sidebar to the right labeled "buy grin a redbull,") and like my page on Facebook.
Above all,
Stay Creative, It's Good For You.
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Bioshock Infinite General Crash fixes.
General fixes you should try first repair Bioshock Infinite
Restart Your PC
Don't underestimate the power of restarting your PC to fix many problems you are having. This doesn't fix most errors, but it could fix some and should be the first thing you try before attempting any other (possibly ineffective) fixes. Sometimes other programs will occupy resources that your Bioshock Infinite game needs in order to run efficiently. Especially programs closed improperly or with errors. Do this first.
Reinstall Bioshock Infinite
Most problems are caused my bad or corrupt files. This can be remedied by reinstalling the game or verifying the game files on Steam in most cases.
When Reinstalling, first uninstall the game using the uninstaller or through program manager in your control panel on windows. For Mac, (the rumor is that Bioshock Infinite will be available on Mac Summer 2013,) Just move the file to the trash. After uninstalling - reinstall.
Verify Integrity of Game Cache
Often times, when game files are corrupt or missing, using the steam Verify Integrity of Game Cache feature will repair the game and make it playable again. For Steam, go to the game in your steam library, right click on properties, click the "Local Files" tab and click the "Verify Integrity of Game Cache," button.
Your General Fixes:
If you have a general fix you would like to share, leave a comment below or on Grinning Studios' Facebook page. If I add your fix here, I will also add a link to you or your website as the submitter.
Please let me know if any of this works for you or doesn't work for you so I can make sure I am giving correct information or change the information to help more people. Thanks, and good luck.
Please Do...
If any of this information has helped you, please spread the butter on the bread! and by butter I mean this post or this website, and by bread I mean the social network or blog of you choice. Leave a comment down below, make a donation if you are feeling generous (link in the sidebar to the right labeled "buy grin a redbull,") and like my page on Facebook.
Above all,
Stay Creative, It's Good For You.
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Restart Your PC
Don't underestimate the power of restarting your PC to fix many problems you are having. This doesn't fix most errors, but it could fix some and should be the first thing you try before attempting any other (possibly ineffective) fixes. Sometimes other programs will occupy resources that your Bioshock Infinite game needs in order to run efficiently. Especially programs closed improperly or with errors. Do this first.
Reinstall Bioshock Infinite
Most problems are caused my bad or corrupt files. This can be remedied by reinstalling the game or verifying the game files on Steam in most cases.
When Reinstalling, first uninstall the game using the uninstaller or through program manager in your control panel on windows. For Mac, (the rumor is that Bioshock Infinite will be available on Mac Summer 2013,) Just move the file to the trash. After uninstalling - reinstall.
Verify Integrity of Game Cache
Often times, when game files are corrupt or missing, using the steam Verify Integrity of Game Cache feature will repair the game and make it playable again. For Steam, go to the game in your steam library, right click on properties, click the "Local Files" tab and click the "Verify Integrity of Game Cache," button.
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| Steam -> Library -> Rightclick game -> Properties -> Local Files Tab |
Your General Fixes:
If you have a general fix you would like to share, leave a comment below or on Grinning Studios' Facebook page. If I add your fix here, I will also add a link to you or your website as the submitter.
Please let me know if any of this works for you or doesn't work for you so I can make sure I am giving correct information or change the information to help more people. Thanks, and good luck.
Please Do...
If any of this information has helped you, please spread the butter on the bread! and by butter I mean this post or this website, and by bread I mean the social network or blog of you choice. Leave a comment down below, make a donation if you are feeling generous (link in the sidebar to the right labeled "buy grin a redbull,") and like my page on Facebook.
Above all,
Stay Creative, It's Good For You.
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Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Bioshock Infinite Crash on startup fix and game tweaks download.
Bioshock Infinite - My game crashes before the menu screen loads! What's going on?
Bioshock Infinite has been an extremely enjoyable game, even though I only got to play it a couple days due to Steam Restrictions. I am anxious to play it again, but while I am waiting, I have had some messages from viewers asking about the game crashing in the time from executing and the Bioshock Infinite Navigation Menu appearing. From what I can tell, this is an early bug caused by something to do with the plethora of intro videos and splash screens Bioshock Infinite shows you before you can even get into the game. I've also heard that there was a patch for this problem on April, 5th through steam. If Bioshock Infinite is Crashing on you while you are playing the game, check out my Bioshock Infinite random crash fix for I7 processors post.
How can I fix my Bioshock Infinite game crashing, and at least get to the menu?
If you followed my guide on how to disable steam from Bioshock Infinite, then it is possible you never got the Bioshock Infinite 1.1 update. In this case, you have two options described below:
1. Re-enable Steam for Bioshock Infinite
Revert to enabling steam for Bioshock Infinite - how to do this is basically explained in my Bioshock Infinite disable steam guide. As long as you didn't delete the original files. But you can also right click Bioshock Infinite in Steam - click properties : go to the "Local Files" tab - click "Verify Integrity of Game Cache..."
That should remove all the changes you made to the game and download anything you are missing. However, doing this means you will be back in the leash of steam. If you just can't stand this prospect then try option 2.
2. Disable the intro videos of your Bioshock Infinite game
You can either disable the intro videos on your own by removing them from your Xgame.ini file, or you can download one of the two Xgame.ini files I have already modified and replace your old one to see if that works.
Editing your Bioshock Infinite Xgame.ini
Xgame.ini on Windows 7 can be found in the following location:
C:\Users\[user name]\Documents\My Games\BioShock Infinite\XGame\Config
To edit it, open wordpad as admin, and open this file from the above location. hit CTRL+F to open the find word or phrase dialogue box and type in startupmovies. Put a semi colon in front of the startupmovies entries - here's an example:
An Example Entry looks like...
StartupMovies=AMDLogo720p
Change it to...
;StartupMovies=AMDLogo720p
Save the file and see if that works. If not, try one of my pre-modded Xgame.ini files.
WARNING NOTE:
If you use one of my pre-modded files, please RENAME your original "Xengine.ini" to "oldXengine.ini" before you move my modded file to the folder. If something goes wrong, your old Xgame.ini is there to save you... so to speak. You have been warned.
Pre-modded Xengine.ini files.
With the AMD splash video skippable by hitting any key. - TESTED WORKS
No AMD splash video. - UNTESTED UNKNOWN
If none of these work, please visit Grinning Studios on Facebook and let me know. I will try to help you there.
Please let me know if any of this works for you or doesn't work for you so I can make sure I am giving correct information or change the information to help more people. Thanks, and good luck.
Please Do...
If any of this information has helped you, please spread the butter on the bread! and by butter I mean this post or this website, and by bread I mean the social network or blog of your choice. Leave a comment down below, make a donation if you are feeling generous (link in the sidebar to the right labeled "buy grin a redbull,") and like my page on Facebook.
Above all,
Stay Creative, It's Good For You.
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Bioshock Infinite has been an extremely enjoyable game, even though I only got to play it a couple days due to Steam Restrictions. I am anxious to play it again, but while I am waiting, I have had some messages from viewers asking about the game crashing in the time from executing and the Bioshock Infinite Navigation Menu appearing. From what I can tell, this is an early bug caused by something to do with the plethora of intro videos and splash screens Bioshock Infinite shows you before you can even get into the game. I've also heard that there was a patch for this problem on April, 5th through steam. If Bioshock Infinite is Crashing on you while you are playing the game, check out my Bioshock Infinite random crash fix for I7 processors post.
How can I fix my Bioshock Infinite game crashing, and at least get to the menu?
If you followed my guide on how to disable steam from Bioshock Infinite, then it is possible you never got the Bioshock Infinite 1.1 update. In this case, you have two options described below:
1. Re-enable Steam for Bioshock Infinite
Revert to enabling steam for Bioshock Infinite - how to do this is basically explained in my Bioshock Infinite disable steam guide. As long as you didn't delete the original files. But you can also right click Bioshock Infinite in Steam - click properties : go to the "Local Files" tab - click "Verify Integrity of Game Cache..."
That should remove all the changes you made to the game and download anything you are missing. However, doing this means you will be back in the leash of steam. If you just can't stand this prospect then try option 2.
2. Disable the intro videos of your Bioshock Infinite game
You can either disable the intro videos on your own by removing them from your Xgame.ini file, or you can download one of the two Xgame.ini files I have already modified and replace your old one to see if that works.
Editing your Bioshock Infinite Xgame.ini
Xgame.ini on Windows 7 can be found in the following location:
C:\Users\[user name]\Documents\My Games\BioShock Infinite\XGame\Config
To edit it, open wordpad as admin, and open this file from the above location. hit CTRL+F to open the find word or phrase dialogue box and type in startupmovies. Put a semi colon in front of the startupmovies entries - here's an example:
An Example Entry looks like...
StartupMovies=AMDLogo720p
Change it to...
;StartupMovies=AMDLogo720p
Save the file and see if that works. If not, try one of my pre-modded Xgame.ini files.
WARNING NOTE:
If you use one of my pre-modded files, please RENAME your original "Xengine.ini" to "oldXengine.ini" before you move my modded file to the folder. If something goes wrong, your old Xgame.ini is there to save you... so to speak. You have been warned.
Pre-modded Xengine.ini files.
With the AMD splash video skippable by hitting any key. - TESTED WORKS
No AMD splash video. - UNTESTED UNKNOWN
If none of these work, please visit Grinning Studios on Facebook and let me know. I will try to help you there.
Please let me know if any of this works for you or doesn't work for you so I can make sure I am giving correct information or change the information to help more people. Thanks, and good luck.
Please Do...
If any of this information has helped you, please spread the butter on the bread! and by butter I mean this post or this website, and by bread I mean the social network or blog of your choice. Leave a comment down below, make a donation if you are feeling generous (link in the sidebar to the right labeled "buy grin a redbull,") and like my page on Facebook.
Above all,
Stay Creative, It's Good For You.
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