Ace Gunman

Here is my dilemma: I was playing Pokemon SoulSilver on my Acekard 2i when it decided to die. I thought that by perhaps transferring my save file to an emulator I could continue my game. This worked with DeSmuME, however the game itself is practically unplayable due to slow down. So I moved over to NO$GBA, which with a simple trick can play the game flawlessly. Except whenever I load my save it crashes instantly. Save conversion did not seem to help this issue.

Others have posted about the issue here, but at the time (2009) the problem was not really solved and I did not want to resurrect such an old thread.

A bit of research shows that this problem doesn't exist with prior Pokemon game saves transferred to NO$GBA. Does anyone have a solution?


EDIT: Nevermind folks, I got it working. It turns out the glitch had very little to do with my save. It was in fact a glitch caused by beating the third gym. If you load the game at any point after that it would crash. My save was far past said point. Luckily a patched existed, so its working perfectly now.

Stay frosty, GBAtemp ...and I'm taking Rayder with me!

Today, on this totally ordinary day, I say goodbye to my position as an administrator of GBAtemp. I felt it was time to load up and move on, as there is a whole weird wild world waiting for me outside of the 0s and 1s of this wonderful community. It has been an interesting journey; I've made a lot of friends, told an inordinate amount of corny jokes, and banned a whole lotta' trolls. Now its time for the next adventure of this lone gunman... Rayder is coming with me, whether he likes it or not! He put up a good fight, but in the end I was the one with the gun. He felt it was time he moved on from his global moderating role as well. I wish him the best, as I do for all of the members and staff of the GBAtemp community. Stay frosty - Ace Gunman

On Sunday I went out and purchased a PlayStation 3 to compliment my Xbox 360 and Wii, thus completing my PSWii60 trifecta. This would be the second console trifecta I've completed, the first being last generation with the GameCube, Xbox, and PlayStation 2. So the question is, how many times have you completed the trifecta (or equivalent console generation lineup) in your lifetime?

I don't know about you folks, but back when Pepsi Blue was released I was an addict. To the point where since its discontinuation in North America in 2004 I have thought about it a minimum of once a week. It haunts my dreams. I imagine this must be what a recovering drug addict feels like, a craving that sits in the back of your mind at all times, goading you forward. Except in my case my drug of choice no longer exists in this region.

Now there were really two groups when it came to Pepsi Blue, those that loved it so much that they are still pining for a re-release, much like myself. On the other side of the spectrum were people that despised it so wholeheartedly that they physically wished its complete and utter destruction. There was rarely a middle ground, you either liked it or you didn't. Personally I can understand disliking something, but to the point where you wish even the people who did like it no longer had access is a bit extreme. Why not just... not drink it? Even so, it was really that polarizing.

For those that remember it fondly, the flavor was, well, sweet to say the least. It was a mixture of blueberry and raspberry flavoring (or "berry fusion" as the marketing campaign would like us to say), mixed with a slightly less sweet cotton candy flavor and just a hint of cola. Though not necessarily a Pepsi flavor, despite the name.

I have more or less given up on the idea of getting a hold of my precious, seeing as I don't plan to take a trip to Malaysia any time soon, one of the few markets in which it still exists. I would however be open to alternatives. So does anyone have any ideas on how to replicate the flavor short of buying the recipe from Pepsi Co. and manufacturing it myself? Even better would be a closely-flavored alternate drink.

Canadian Copyright Consultation Counter-Criticisms O, Canada? They're at it again.

In 2008 GBAtemp and the CCER delivered an urgent message about copyright reform to Canadians. In 2009 your efforts and the efforts of other like-minded Canadian citizens yielded results in the form of public consultations from the government of Canada; which turned out to be the most successful public consultation to date. Today, in 2010, we find certain parties (.doc) attempting to discredit that progress. In their efforts to quash the accomplishments of the CCER and others, GBAtemp is cited as an example of a consultation contributing website with a primarily non-Canadian user base. They negatively imply that approximately 5% of GBAtemp's membership is Canadian, which somehow makes our contributions suspect to these individuals. To them we give the following statistic: 5% of 234,242 members is nearly twelve thousand people. They also cite that by discussing the issue on non-Canadian-centric websites we somehow encouraged global participation and invalidated the responses. This couldn't be further from the case. Citizens of Canada were specifically geo-targeted and it was made clear that only Canadian responses would be valid. The only thing we asked of the global community is that they perhaps spread the word and take caution about similar legislation in their locales. That is an utterly ridiculous claim to make, as the internet is a public forum open to the global community. This is an unavoidable facet of having a world wide web. There are very few websites that allow only a specific regional demographic. One must also consider that the most popular and influential websites that have aided in this process are global social websites such as digg, facebook, and twitter. The state of digital rights has changed greatly over the past two decades. We are now living in an age in which established bands have released full albums in digital form at no cost via bit torrent sites. Television program ratings sampled from PVR/DVR and other TiVo-like TV recording devices are being considered every bit as valuable as the traditional Nielson ratings. Said programs are also being broadcast via websites like Hulu and TV network sites at no consumer cost. Things have changed. The CCER welcomes copyright reform, however there is a generational and regional gap at play in this reform process. The copyright reform that has been proposed by government officials and US lobbyists thus far is outdated and doesn't take into consideration the ever-changing and evolving state of copyright. Canada needs copyright reform, but we need modern legislation with the modern day public, consumer, and creator in mind.