The unexpected journey of the FF7 save in the nighttime

 Well, I never expected this endeavour to be so difficult.

I play Final Fantasy 7 on my android phone. I own the game, 2 copies of the PS original to be exact, and all I want is to play the save that is on my phone on my PS3 and my PS Vita. Of course I had to buy the game again on PSN, but I don't have a problem with spending €10 on something again that has given me so many hours of enjoyment (Ignored the re-released PC version though).

Anyway, this post will detail the fun fun journey to do something that should be simple - moving the save file from my phone to the vita. Going to say now... It's wasn't easy, but it is possible.

Exclusivity

This is a topic that has been on my mind for a while now. I started thinking about it a lot when I was informed that “From Dust” would be released early on the X-Box 360 compared to other platforms, such as PSN or Steam. Now, I am probably biased when I talk about this, as I don’t have an X-Box. However, this has been weighing on my mind for a while.

Limbo is being released on PSN and Steam (also) finally. It sounds like a great game – nominated for a BAFTA, etc etc… But isn’t the release a little bit… Late? They previously mentioned that is was intended to be a 360 exclusive, but now they seem to have changed their minds. Microsoft managed to get Minecraft exclusively released on the 360, despite the fact that the original version is PC, Mac and Linux, and they are developing an Android version. The Fallout 3 DLC was EVENTUALLY released on PSN, after a very long delay. The DLC for GTA 4 also eventually got released on PSN and PC. Microsoft's timed exclusivity on all Call of Duty DLC. That's not saying that PSN doesn’t have exclusives, they do too. Same for Steam. Literally, there are too many examples of this.

Back in the days of the Playstation, if you were told that a game was going to be released on one platform, it got released on one platform. Was the supposed greatest shooter of all time (Goldeneye, N64) ever released on other platforms? Nope. Wii doesn’t count either. People would usually purchase one platform, and for better or worse, they had to enjoy the games that were released on it. That seems to have completely changed.

I suppose I feel almost socialist when I say this but I don’t think that what happens nowadays is a good thing. “Timed Exclusivity” would be a mixed blessing, if only they were allowed to announce that. Typically companies are not allowed to say when the exclusivity period ends, or even their intensions. And as a consumer of these entertainment products, this tarnishes the image of not just the game companies themselves, but the big corporations that offer these decisions on the game companies with boatloads of cash. Typically it’s not even companies that need that cash boat. I can see why they do it. It doesn’t seem to harm anyone, and the developer gets loads of cash. Isn’t that partially harmful?

The games industry seems to be purely running on Exclusives, Timed Exclusives and sequels. Oh god the sequels… Look at the November release schedule. It’s like sequel month. But looking to the future, I can easily see that The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim will have timed exclusive DLC on the 360. It’s blindingly obvious. I don’t enjoy exclusives. Big games, yeah. Uncharted. Gears of War. Halo. Resistance. Mario Galaxy. They are developed by second party developers, and being released on other consoles will never happen (For the foreseeable future). It’s the third party games and DLC that just ticks me off. It’s purely done for greed, rather than for the benefit of the consumer. I hope that in the future, we see less of this ridiculous timed exclusive releases tied in with NDA’s about the length of time even. Just annoying, that all.

Interesting read of... this... [timespan]

http://trustygamer.com/tg/home/industry-thoughts/i-miss-color/

You know someday I'm going to remember to put the Labels on before I publish the article. But that isn't any day soon I imagine.

Anyway it's an interesting article. Game Development related, no doubt. And so very true.

***Breaking News*** Sky news overreacts slightly

*Breaking News*

Sky sources have told us that sky news has just received word of the Leap Year PS3 bug. According to the source "When users tried to re-set the date and time via the internet, their consoles informed them: "The current date and time could not be obtained. (8001050F)".

Keyword Squatting

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Perhaps searching for that on Google gets this, methinks? Searching that word on Google got no results, but every combination below that had at least one hit. So what you see is a unique word on the internet, or at least until Google indexes it. Then it's just another one. :(

Lost on Lost? Don't ask me for directions

Remember this? Takes me back to the good old days when RTE got the episodes of Lost before any other country outside America. Also back when Lost was on Channel 4 instead of that pile of dung Sky 1.

I think I finally solved the secret of Lost. They're all in a serialized television show where loads of wierd stuff happens for no reason that they will never be able to explain!

Wierd old lost Video -> http://www.lachapellestudio.com/film/commercials/lost/

Trippy, Dude...

Ever felt like your existance actually means something? Then lets fix that, a lovely video showing just how small we are.



Ohh nice and spacey!

First!

Hi there! I see that you must have looked all the way back to when this blog started. Now I know I can't predict the future, but I imagine that this is easily the best blog in the world. Yep, people will look back at this message and think "Jeez what the hell is he talking about???". I know. I was one of those people.

Well actually at this moment, all the way in the past, I'm not really a blog reader. Or a fan of blogs. I just wanted to start one. So hopefully this post had a sarcastic enough tone to be the first post on the blog, as well as the first post on the blog ever.

Yep.

Don't look for logic, let it find you. Which it won't here, I'd try Wikipedia.