Heran Bago

When using the new theme's 'quick reply' menus and some writing fields including the one I'm using right now, I have to disable the FireFox plugin Grab and Drag. If I do not then when I click in the field to enter text, the typing reticule disappears as soon as I can type 1 letter. The Grab and Drag add-on is for tablet PC usage and enables iPad-like scrolling. The problem is not present in Chrome's tablet addon and I'm using 64-bit Windows.

This didn't happen with the old theme. It's likely that the fault lies in the plug-in rather than some coding in the theme, but where does one go about identifying the source of a problem like this? Can anyone else with Grab and Drag confirm or deny this?

From a recent Sony Press release. This article is dated in the future for me PST!


Netflix?

Old news to those in the loop, but I hound the news here and never saw it!

The big fix is for NSMBW and presumably other games that give that BCA issue. Also better 3X DVD support.

Via Eurasia, download in their members area or in wiikey.cn's members area.


I remember soldering my $7 WiiKey clone in a dorm room lobby, but the ensuing Super Paper Mario inspired a few purchases of the real chip and the real game. Here's to the longest-supported Wii modchip! On the downside though because of it's great support I never got into USB loaders nor updated past 3.2.

I was listening to the game's audio files (can be done with in_cube plugin for Winamp or Brawl Custom Song Maker GUI.) It's easy enough to convert to and from MP3s. One person on this board already noted the soundtrack to NSMBW had been ripped. However it's not the whole sound track, with good reason.

Several of the audio files in the game in /Sound/stream/ do not play in either. Has anyone noticed this before? I couldn't find anything on them. With some trial+error+Japanese it shouldn't be too hard to figure out which file is which song. They might be changing up the format a bit after all the game rips that have come out.

The offending brstm files all begin with STRM in the file name. Any clues?

Has anyone here been to Japan or studied Japanese? No one really understands the target of this new DSi the way I think it was intended...

LL commonly refers to a language lab, or place of lingual studdies and tools. If you have the a dictionary like the DS kanji dictionary Kanji Sonomama Rakubiki Jiten, look up "LL".

In east asia, especially Japan, students carry devices called electronic dictionaries. These allow you to convert between a number of languages easily (English, Japanese, Chinese, often European languages as well) and look up kanji by writing it rather than determining stroke count and radicals.

For poorer students like myself, the DS offers pretty good electronic dictionary software. You can write kanji on the screen and it is identified, converted to English, the works. Electronic dictionaries often look kind of like a DS or one of those sidekick phones, so a DS blends in well.
The DS also offers fun educational/training software so it's good for students to have.

Electronic dictionaries and language / brain training games are much more popular in Japan. The DSi LL appeals to this specific market segment - it comes preloaded with dictionary and educational software, while the screens as more suited to electronic dictionary use and reading. The design uses more classy/professional colors and won't stand out in a classroom.

Games are still fine but won't look as nice with big pixels (debatable), but people who want to play play play already have a system. People interested in the language services are usually more on the fence. This model will probably not come out state-side since we don't use Asian languages or electronic dictionaries so much.


I made this thread because not one person in the previous, closed topic pointed this out. I guess no one on the board who bothered posting is from Japan or that familiar with the culture but the case/screen/stylus design, preloaded software, and "LL" aren't just a coincidence.