Monday, July 27, 2009

Touhou 12.3 : Touhou Hishoutenshoku

5 days ago, Tasofro announce that there will be touhou 12.3 in this comiket 76 (It's in August, in case you forgot)



And yeah, actually I'm posting far too late, thanks for my ⑨ grade internet. I can't even open anything else than messenger.


Basically, there's no detail about what kind of game is this. I mean, It can be expansion for Touhou 10.5:Hishouten (Hence It's name, Touhou Hisoutenshoku), or it can be a brand new game (since it's not touhou 10.5 anymore). There's a few theories about this, including it's still Touhou 10.5 but, the timeframe advanced to be after Touhou 12, UFO.

Well, whatever it is, feel free to imagine what do you want from it until further announcement. Anyway, from what I gathered from internet, It's a full game, but you still need Touhou 10.5 to make it have the full cast (well, that's not far different from what i call expansion -_-a)

New character is a must, And well, so far tasofro has leaked 3 of it's character, namely:



Sanae Kotiya/ Sanae Kochiya


Cirno!!!!!


China. er...no. Chuugoku... no? Whatever. It's Hong Meiling


And now about the cover.... Well, The last boss is always in the cover, if you follow the series. And it's... CIRNO!!!!! well, I certainly don't want to be killed by Cirno by founding that she's more HAX than Reimu already is, well, Cirno is Teh Strongest after all (and no typo). There's cirno ingame, so there's high possibility that she's the last boss. There's won't be official announcement about it (you must find it yourself, anyway).

Anyway, Like usual things from Touhou series. Just wait, play it and see it yourself (if you can, that is). I'll try to snatch this game along with TH12 at this comiket. Until then, happy dreaming~

some extra (unconfirmed)







PS: And make my Hourai Ningyou a playable character, you damn tasofro.

Edit: Here's from /jp/

Main Story
That morning was a little dark, as if something was blocking the rays of the sun. Could it be because of the morning mist that had unexpectedly appeared in the middle of summer?

Having leapt out of your home into the mist you were expecting to let you forget about the heat, it is no wonder you would be startled to have that swaying “thing” appear before your eyes.

This man-shaped “thing”, venting disgusting tepid steam, staggered forward as if gazing up at the mountain.

–From up on the summery mountain, as hot and busy as it always was, she gazed down upon the man-shaped “thing”.


Sanae's Story
Two short years had passed since she first came to Gensokyo. At first, she was in such awe of its bizarre inhabitants that she couldn’t even perform her rituals properly, but now she was on friendly terms with them, and could perform her usual work just fine.
She thought she would not be surprised by anything any more. But of course, Gensokyo is the kind of place that will manage to startle anyone who believes so. That is one of Gensokyo’s strong points in comparison to the outside world.

From the Moriya Shrine, she had seen the shape of a giant man. It was taller by far than the shrine itself – in her own old-fashioned terms, it was on the scale of a ten-story highrise.

To her, it looked like a giant robot from the anime she used to watch long ago.

But for a robot, it moved too smoothly. It moved as if alive, sometimes looking longingly at the mountains, sometimes glaring down at the villages. And suddenly, it was wrapped in fog, disappearing in eery silence.

When she informed Kanako of what she had seen, Kanako told her about the Spectre of the Brocken. The Spectre of the Brocken is a weather phenomenon where your own shadow is reflected in the mist as a seemingly giant figure.

But no matter whether it actually was just a weather phenomenon, believing it was so would take all the fun out of your possible trains of thought. So she decided to believe it was a giant robot attacking the villages below. That way, it would be fun to investigate.

Yes, this was definitely no shadow reflected in the mist. The mist had appeared after the man-shape, but most importantly, this was Gensokyo, a place where nothing, no matter how strange, is ever unexpected.


Cirno's Story

The little fairy was excited as ever. Today it was because she had seen that thing that was taller than a mountain.

Of course, it was it was also further away than the mountains, so it wasn’t very big, but from looking at it, she felt there wasn’t much of a difference between them. It had quickly been enveloped in mist and she lost sight of it, but she was sure of what she’d seen. That was the great youkai Daidarabocchi, no doubt about it.

With no idea where should stay, but filled with excitement at seeing such a rare youkai, the miko had left the youkai mountain.

“Have you seen a giant ro… a large moving thing around here?” asked the miko, starting her search through the mist.

The little fairy for some reason started feeling annoyed at this, and felt that since she had seen it first, it should belong to her.

“Nope, haven’t seen Daidarabocchi at all!” she answered, to fool the miko.

She had set out to search for the great youkai on her own, out of pure curiosity.


China's Story

The Scarlet Devil Mansion was as busy that day as it always was. The gate keeper was giving a report to the mistress of the house, Remilia Scarlet, who was cheerfully paying it no attention.

The gate keeper was feeling a vague sense of unease. During the morning, she had seen the shape of a giant man at the foot of the mountain. It had then vented tepid steam around it, and disappeared.

What could it have been? It was as big as the giant bird Peng, and spewed ominous smoke. She was sure of it – it was the shape of Taisuei-shengjun, the Embodiment of Misfortune.

Now all the youkai of Gensokyo must stand together and fight this evil god that has appeared in their midst, she reported to the mistress of the Scarlet Devil Mansion.

Needless to say, her recommendation was not heeded.

As she reflected later, she perhaps exaggerated a bit, in order to brighten up her dull everyday life a little.


Source: tasofro

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Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Layout change.

Actually, I still like my previous layout, but since I have nothing to do then I'll do something about it, for the sake of "Having something to do" :P. Also, a bit of tutorial on how to make the "continue reading" section on blogspot.






This change mainly revolves around new themes, and also using this "Continue Reading..." things, here's how to do it.

1. Enter your blogger accounts.
2. Go to the Dashboard, from there, go to the Layout tabs - > Edit HTML
3. Expand Widget Templates (just tick the button with corresponding names)
4. Find this line of codes in your template HTML:

     <data:post.body/>

5. As you might guessed, this is the content of your post, now we want to modify this so that only a paragraph (or I dunno how many amount of contents you prefer) is being shown on the outside.
For the sake of easiness, just replace that line with

    <b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>
    <style>.fullpost{display:inline;}</style>
    <p><data:post.body/></p>
    <b:else/>
    <style>.fullpost{display:none;}</style>
    <p><data:post.body/> </p>
    <p><a expr:href='data:post.url'><b>Continue Reading...</b></a></p>
    </b:if>


6. Done? Now save your template.
7. Go to the Settings tab -> Formatting, there you will find something like textbox labeled "Post template" in the lower section.
8. Write these following codes there.

    <span class="fullpost">
    </span>

9. Save it.....

10 Ok, It's done, now what left is about how to use this code. Simply place the first paragraph above the <span class="fullpost"> (this should be automatically there if you're following section numer 7-9, else write it yourself) and the rest of contents below that line and above </span>;

Why I'm using it? well, the most obvious reason is because I used a lot of picture (and I'm also aware that there are many ppl who don't have decent Internet speed to load all the picture while trying to browse specific contents). The other reason is... you know, simplicity, no one wants to scroll the sea of text or pics to view what's posted here.

That's about it, and as you can see, I'm not done with Layouting yet (This themes only serves as placeholder), Well, yeah, I guess now It's photoshopping time......

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Monday, July 6, 2009

Hatsune miku: Project Diva

Sorry for not posting for a whole month, I'm busy...
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Ok, that's a total lie. I don't even have anything else to do other than playing games recently.

So here I am, playing project diva, using my friend's psp (no, I don't have one).

Well, Many of you have already played this game, I myself got the game 2 days before it's release date, but I don't have any luxury to play it as much as i like.

This game is a rhythm game, much like DDR mixed with some idolm@ster dance.


This game consist of 36 playable songs on it's free play" section, every song has "mark" or "tag", represented by color. There's 6 color, namely pink,blue,orange,yellow,sky blue, and white. There's 5 song in each tag set, with exception for yellow(9 songs), and white (7 songs)

Also, this game also featuring many costumes (53), this also includes Megurine Luka, Rin/Len, and even Yowane Haku, Akita Neru, and Kaito.

One thing that really make this game interesting is that you can create custom songs on your own, much like an editor, including what keys to be pressed, it's sequence, etc,etc. Needless to say, you are free to set what kind of action your vocaloid will perform. There's already a few (or many) custom song at http://loda.jp/mikudiva/

Ahem, now to the game, It's basically a like DDR, if you have ever played that, but instead of direction arrow, you use Triangle/circle/X/square button, and sadly, you can't interchange it with directional button., so It's more like your right hand do all the work and your left hand sitting idle doing nothing. Your screen will display what button that you need to press with something like clock hand at specific place, and the matching button flying across screen. What you need to do is press the button exactly when the clock hand reach 1200 or the flying coloured button overlaps stationery button. Every hit you make worth some pint and there's an extra point if you can make a combos of "fine" or "cool" condition (equal to "great" and "perfect" in DDR). There's also a chance time, a time where every combo you make can give you crazy extra points if it connects (it's likely more than half of the game's point are from this chance time frame)

Well, after finishing it, you get your grade, MissxTake, refer to failed songs, this is happens when you can't keep up with songs and forced to leave the game before it's ended. Cheap, when you manage to beat a songs but have not enough points to pass. standard, well, standard, you just barely pass. Great, like the name implies, you passed with points higher than it should and perfect... well, perfect, not even a single note you do is below "fine".

There's also costume... well, It's the costume that you use for your Miku (or other character), each with some specific requirements for it. Some are easy to get, and the others are freaking hard (not really hard, actually, just need quite a few trials).

There's also Miku's room, for, I dunno what XD, and gallery for screen. Well, that's pretty much it. You can get the picture to your memory stick by pressing R buttons. Well, here's some screenshot that I take.



My Favorite Costume <3 labeled as "snow"














Yowane Haku... yes, you can use her.






And sorry, but for now, I can't give you any screenshot of the playing screen (Too lazy to search a way to do it). Video is also a bit out of question, sega remove every project diva's video (and ban the user)except the official one at Youtube

I already get all the songs, but only half the costumes, well, I'll do the unlocking job when I have time *cough* motivation to do so.

Overall, this is a great game, and have a great song sets to boot (I even amazed that the first playable song is my favorite, "World is Mine" by Ryo/Supercell), also, the potential of custom songs are not something to be overlooked at.

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Saturday, May 23, 2009

Nendoroid - Hatsune Miku

Normally, I don't do any photoshoot, nor even think about it. Well, this time it's a special case. My friend request me to do that, in exchange that I can get in touch with someone who sells this nendoroid Miku.

I've already warned him that I absolutely have no skill in this area, and he say "just do it" -_-a. Well, I can't argue with him. It's an easy thing in exchange for this nendoroid. that's to say, this is my first time doing this (and thanks to my friend, XPhile for lending me his tripod).

Since this is not my area of expertise, don't expect too much from me. If you do have any comment, feel free to do so. There might be more case that He will ask me to do something similar again, I don't know, also, if I can get more skill with this, why not? learning more never hurts.

On a side note, I'm using Nikon Coolpix 5200. I don't know but it's noise rate is far above average. I must set the ISO to 64 so that there won't be any visible noise.

Here you go:





On the concert stage.




Negi, anyone...?







Hachune is a must... just a compulsory thing for miku. also, the other face I get....


And yeah.... Miku can be balanced even without any stander.

Well, that's it. I know this is not a good pic, since I'm not into this, but if you do comment on this, I'll try to make it better next time. Well then~

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Saturday, May 9, 2009

Audiophile-id East Java - May gathering-

Actually, there's a few more gathering between this and last post, but there's nothing new there, so, I won't bother writing about that. This time, there's many new item, and almost all members comes, so it's time to post it again.
All pic posted here is from Xphile.


Left to right:Xphile, Shiroa, Pitom, Diboy, Alvon, nagnecagn, Antidote, Hourai Ningyou, RayZLight





Headphones, and amps, the last pic is the table where we roll opamps.


Senheisser HD414, too bright for my taste.


diboy, listening to Grado SR60, well, some of you might already know this guy.


My own Amps, Zigis, using D2 Viper's opamp, it's sound is freakishly good when paired with etymotic ER4S.


Soul Mini, with 3 opamps and 1 buffer. Good sound, but too pricey which is not worth it.

Random conversation by diboy :
"promonya ada apa aja mbak"
"ada promo buy 1 get 1 ama upsize"
"yang promo dapet mbaknya ada ga ?"
(blushing, and then starting to chat with random topic)
"paling enak kalo mau nonton beli minum di sini dulu.. trus nonton"
"o0o jadi kalo mau nonton beli minum di sini.. dapet mbaknya..."
(blushing again)


That's it for now. Off topic note, I'm still unsure what kind of blog this blog will be. Some friends suggests that I should make this blog reviewing about Touhou music, well, that's not a bad idea, since funkies is broken and nowhere to be found. I'll try to make some, and see how well it goes.

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Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Reinforce Zwei - Alter

Well, after waiting for many month, I finally get this item....


Reinforce Zwei, 2nd batch of production


Well, blame Sonicver2 and his review for poisoning me to buy this.
I rarely bought some real figure because... well... I don't have any space to spend for these girl. It might be okay if I'm on my own house, but now I'm renting a room on some boarding house (I'm not originally from Surabaya). Adding more Action Figure to my room is pretty much same as adding more mess in my cramped, small room.

Previously, I'm almost losing hope of obtaining this Figure, but on some certain day last year, Sonicver2 notify me that Reinforce is going to be re-published. I immediately wake up, leave my bed, and making a pre-order.

Meanwhile, I'm also glad that I miss the first batch of production, in this batch, they improve the painting, most noticeably on her cloth


This is my unit, the previous batch have coarser painting on her cloth lining


That's for it, other than the painting it's more or less the same item.

PS: I never noticed this but, I think will get a tripod because... Damn, I DO need one sometimes.

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Saturday, March 28, 2009

Audiophile-Id's Gathering for East Java region.

This week is the last week before mid-term exam. I have many things on my mind, aside from many assignment that makes Me get inadequate sleep (sleeping at 3 in the morning, wake up at 6). Anyway, even though I'm quite busy, I, fortunately, get a chance to attend the audiophile-id's 2nd gathering for East Java's region. Audiophile-id is an Indonesian's audiophile forum specializing in headphone audio(Just imagine it as smaller version of Head-fi, for Indonesian).

So what do I listen there... well, several cans,IEMs,and Buds, which mostly a good one (and a bit pricey as well, 100$++ for each pair of it, might sounds very expensive for non audiophile), but fortunately I'm not getting attached to them, well, except iBasso D2 Viper amps.

Cans:
AKG K400EP
AKG K412P
Audio Technica A500
Audio Technica A900
Audio Technica EM7 GM
Crossroad Bijou #2
dbE HF30
dbE PR18
dbE PR20
Sennheiser HD414 , Kimber Recabled
Sennheiser HD555
Sennheiser PX100
Ultimate Ears Super fi. 5 EB
Ultrasone Proline 750
Westone UM1
Westone UM2
Yuin PK2

Cable:
Cardas Mini2Mini
Cardas LOD with BG caps

Source:
iPod Classic 160 Gb
iPod iMod Video 5th gen
iPod Nano 4th Gen
iPod Shuffle 2nd Gen
iPod Video 5,5gen
Sandisk sansa Clip
Sony Walkman NWZ-A726F
Sony Walkman NWZ-B135F
Zen Stone plus

Amps:
Fiio E5
iBasso D2 Boa
iBasso D2 Viper
DIY Desktop Amp

Aside from my own rig.. which is
Sennheiser MX160(earbuds), dbE PR18(IEM), Etymotic ER4S(IEM), Zigis CMoy amp w/ OPA2134 (Amplifier), FiiO E3(Amplifier).

I'm quite impressed with the D2 Viper, which sounds extremely good when paired with my Etymotics. To said, that's far more better than my own Zigis amp. On the other side, other members claims that my Zigis is far better than Viper. Well, in my etymotics, Zigis cuts off the detail which I'm looking for, while adding more bass (This is not the case for their fullsize, It's just the etymotics that's really sensitive in detail, OPA2134 in Zigis supposedly give more detail, but when your cans have higher standard than that, it will just cut off the detail)



Members of East Java Reg. Including me.




Viper!!!!


Westone UM1


Westone UM2... This is pretty darn good.




My Etymotic ER4S and D2 Boa, I'm not impressed by this amps, lacks the power&detail


Yeah I know, there's many cans that you thought are better than my ER4S, but it's really down to personal taste. I'm not even interested in Proline 750. People who likes Zigis above is a perfect example of this. I'm considering to get D2 Viper for myself, my friend got it for less than 100$. The problem is that I don't have that much money to spend yet, and I can't find it as easily as other items. That's it, if I can't afford this before July, I think I will make amps myself (might be CMoy, or PIMETA, if I can find place where I can buy the parts, PPA is out of my ability).

For now, it's exam!!!!! I will take 4 exam straight without break this Tuesday (Software Engineering, Numerical Method, Artificial Intelligence, and Database).

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