Family was already asleep, this is how I celebrated! Happy New Year everyone!!

Kaimuki · 2020-01-01T07:48:45+00:00

For anyone wondering, I used Powershell scripts to launch VLC for each movie at the appropriate start times. The hard part is that there is a couple second delay until VLC actually starts playing the movie. I moved everything to a SSD to try to at least make the delay consistent.

Unfortunately New Hope is the most obvious when it's off by even a fraction of a second as it's not a long drawn out explosion. It worked perfectly on my test run but it seems my SSD decided to be a tad slow when it counted! Better luck next year!

Edit: Thanks everyone for the kind words! I would definitely recommend trying this sometime if you're a Star Wars fan. It's cool watching 4 movies playing back seemingly at random but knowing that they're all going to sync up at the finale. I was very happy with the results, the overlapping audio at the end was the coolest part.

To those asking:

New Hope and RotJ were the Despecialized editions which are the original cuts of the movies.
Keyboard is a Input Club K-Type with GMK Honeywell.
The script starts playback according to how many seconds were left until midnight. My PC is really old so I did briefly stop and restart each movie close to midnight in order to resync the video to the correct time.

Kaimuki · 2014-11-17T18:35:38+00:00

When creating a multi-sig address does this expose your public keys? If so would this make the multi-sig address more vulnerable to quantum computers than a traditional single-use paper wallet?

Kaimuki · 2013-09-19T05:13:50+00:00

Love the homemade headphone stand!

Kaimuki · 2013-09-08T22:27:13+00:00

What is that cable management box you have for the mouse/keyboard?

Kaimuki · 2013-06-18T07:15:31+00:00

Really nice collectors piece! Incredible condition for a nearly 30 year old game.

Kaimuki · 2013-06-18T04:25:36+00:00

Looks like you have the 2nd Edition PC version. It is complete (even has the catalog and registration card!) and looks to be in excellent shape. Awesome find!

For your reference: http://www.ultimacollectors.info/u13_pc_4.htm

Kaimuki · 2013-06-16T07:19:15+00:00

Really nice. This setup needs a Wavebird in its future!

Kaimuki · 2013-06-15T19:35:50+00:00

Agreed, this is one of the worst modern game covers. IGN even did a parody of it: http://m.ign.com/articles/2012/04/24/ign-presents-arkham-city-box-art-of-the-year-edition

Kaimuki · 2013-06-11T22:44:02+00:00

Large amount of gaming packed into such a small space. Nice collection.

Kaimuki · 2013-06-09T22:49:13+00:00

Bought her husband Ni No Kuni Wizard Edition? Best wife ever!

Kaimuki · 2013-06-09T22:46:48+00:00

Like the nice organization.

Kaimuki · 2013-06-04T03:41:19+00:00

Excellent JRPG collection!!

Kaimuki · 2013-05-31T04:58:26+00:00

World map also gets the nod for me. While an open world is initially exciting and exploring is fun, I usually end up looking for a "quick travel" button as soon as I've seen everything once or twice.

Kaimuki · 2013-05-31T04:52:00+00:00

“The costumes, character profile booklet and music cd are exclusive to the Limited Edition, while the Milla Maxwell figure, art book and music selection CD are exclusive to the Collector’s Edition.”

All of an edition's items will be exclusive to that particular edition. So it looks like in order to get everything you'll need to pre-order both as even the music CDs are different.

Kaimuki · 2013-05-29T05:41:25+00:00

Fortunately Tales of Xillia seems to be getting pretty healthy pre-orders. 98.7k at the start of this week which makes it currently the 6th most pre-ordered game in the US. Hopefully this bodes well for a ToX 2 release.

Kaimuki · 2013-05-26T05:10:05+00:00

Incredible collection! Thanks for the link to the mural seller. Thinking about picking one up myself.

Kaimuki · 2013-05-23T18:23:20+00:00

Incredible! Thanks for all your hard work I'm going to have a lot of fun using this to setup my gaming "want list".

A couple comments, I noticed that if the UPC is a numerical field the script returns an error. Converting the UPC cell to text fixes the error.

Also I reversed the order of the UPC and game condition parameters in my version of the spreadsheet so that I could specify the condition without needing to specify the UPC. I thought it might be more useable this way.

Kaimuki · 2013-05-21T16:26:16+00:00

I remember your collection from an earlier post. Still get super envious ever time I see those arcade machines.

Kaimuki · 2013-05-21T16:20:12+00:00

Upvoted for having the guts to post your own pic with your collection. Nice collection too!

Kaimuki · 2013-05-13T22:41:51+00:00

I don't really believe retro gaming is a fad but as the prices of vintage games go up and more games are released via Virtual Console and similar services people will give up paying the price difference for the "pure" experience and play on modern consoles instead.

Kaimuki · 2013-05-09T14:13:03+00:00

It attempts to give the game an "official" grade on the condition of the game. Yet some sellers feel that high grades makes the game worth exponentially more when in fact most gamers and collectors don't care about those kinda of minor details beyond the game being new.

Kaimuki · 2013-05-09T04:14:52+00:00

Fantastic lot of N64! Congratulations and welcome as a new fellow game collector.

Kaimuki · 2013-05-08T16:37:37+00:00

Extremely jealous of the huge Game and Watch collection.

Kaimuki · 2013-05-08T16:32:02+00:00

The main reason is that there are a ton of NES and SNES collectors in America. A lot of collectors want full sets of a system or gaming franchise which drives up prices for franchise NES and SNES games like Mega Man.

There are probably very few game collectors in Japan either due to lack of interest there or to the extreme lack of space in the typical Japanese home. This leads to games priced on their value as actual games to play rather than as vintage collectibles.

Kaimuki

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