Have you ever heard of a DS emulator called no$gba? With some recent developments, DS emulation has become really good.
It still requires a reasonably powerful machine to emulate a DS game well, but actual playability is very much in site now!
Problems still exist naturally, 3d games suffer slowdown (but very little of it with the latest developments) transparency sometimes messes up (it can be a hinderance in Picross) and 3d models don't display properly (shadows just don't work right.) But these are all gradually coming together, why, with the previous update, Megaman ZX would crash and Mario Kart was painfully slow! The biggest problem that exists right now is sound, many games sound fine, but going back to Mario Kart DS sound can be horrible.

Here's a list of games I've tested, keep in mind I've got a lotta ram, a powerful processor and a high-end graphics card on Vista.

New Super Mario Bros:
YES! Game is fully playable, intro has weird transparent sprites, slowdown with multiple 3d models is minimal!

Zoo Keeper:
YES! Infact, it's practically perfect

Brain Age:
WELL, it certainly works perfectly, except the emulator needs an option to rotate the screen sideways. :p

Megaman Starforce Dragon:
NO, 3d models just do not appear in battle...

42 All Time Classics:
NO, it never seems to get past the saving screen, and it still horribly slow and sounds awful.

Mario Kart DS:
YES! The slowdown is minimal and fully playable, but you'll need to put up with some bad sound quality.

Megaman ZX:
YES! Works great, even the videos they included, but there are some minor transparency issues.

Sonic Rush Adventure:
YES! The game plays amazingly well! The intro is a bit slow, the main levels work 100%, the boss battles are a bit slow, the Jet Bike levels work fine but have some bizarre graphical errors, but it's completely playable.

Megaman Battle Network 5 DS:
Maybe? The game works great, minor transparency issues, but I can't seem to save it, I can't be bothered to investigate, probably requires savetype configuration.

Zelda Phantom Hourglass:
YES? Now this is an odd one, during gameplay, it actually runs FASTER than it should.
I think I have an explanation for this too, when looking for action replay codes, it seems that this game has a built in V-sync option, disabling it makes the game go way faster than it should.
There's also a lot of shading issues and slowdown in some circumstances.
So it won't be easy playing with your mouse.

Tetris DS:
YES! It's fully playable and great speed, but one issue is that the background is not translucent, making it hard to see tetris pieces.
I prefer Tetris DX anyway, I hate 20g and infinite spin.

Animal Crossing DS Demo:
NO, the outdoors 3d models just don't appear, at all.

Pokémon Diamond:
YES! It runs at a great speed and such, although some graphic errors like water appearing black occur. Otherwise, fully playable!

So there you have it, these are the games I've tested, you can see, problems to exist but these should not be hard to overcome.
I look forward to what future developments the no$gba team makes, I might even donate if I can make use of it. :)

It's been a while since I've posted a news article, but I can't REALLY think of anything to post.
I mean, I should be working on a flash, but i'm not.

Really, I'm just playing one game after another these days, I'm always in need of a good game, right now it's Megaman ZX Advent, before that it was Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland (you can imagine why), and before that, Zelda Phantom Hourglass of course.

I've GOT to do SOMETHING in flash, I mean fuck, my output has been so low this year because I keep playing games, even just something short like Untitled-1.fla, maybe I should do an Untitled-2.fla or something.
Hell, already ideas are pouring into my head, that in itself could be the idea.

I need to get out of the habit of making movies just because a special occasion is coming up, like clockday or clockmas, I've got to do something about only ever doing things to fulfil deadlines or goals.

And no, I'm not making a Tails and his GBA 4, for fucks sakes.

I was getting bored of the same old header graphic, so I decided to piece something together.
In addition to the same values I used last time, I've included the Rupoor from Phantom Hourglass, a Rupoor will actually take your Rupees away from you somehow, I don't really understand HOW, but it does.
You'll see there's 3 different positions of the gem as well, angled to the left, right and centre slightly, I think they came out well.

So, feedback would be appreciated, but none of that usual meaningless praise please, I want comments that I can actually WORK with to improve myself.

And to the first person who can figure out the total number of Rupees in my header (based on the values of Twilight Princess and the Rupoors from Phantom Hourglass), well, I guess I'll say that you're right. :p

They kinda look like jelly beans.

Okay, so let's check shall we? Mario has:

Been a plumber
Acarpenter
A doctor
Professional tennis player
Professional football player
Professional baseball player
Part of a wrecking crew
Piloted a submarine
Piloted a space ship
Piloted a cigar shaped space ship to DESTROY THE VID-GRID
Professional dancer
Did community service cleaning gunk up
Professional fighter
Has a toy company
Has been the hero of the prophecy
Professional artist
Professional basketball player
Professional Snowboarder
Party animal
Wondered around with a bucket on his head
An archaeologist
A safari hunter
A time traveller
A typing tutor
A pinball
A kart/motor bike driver
A guy who randomly shuts down one of 7 koopa hotels
A fursuiter
A cowboy
As thin as paper
A tennis referee
A boxing referee
A hero of creatures in his dreams

Seriously, what the hell hasn't he done?
Oh, and apparently, Tails has also taught music to children.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tails_and _the_Music_Maker

After Parcelforce fucked up 3 times, Novatech delivered the system just a few hours after I enquired, I've now got my Dual Core processor, 2gb ram, 500gb HDD, Geforce 8600 graphics card computer!

Already it's really damn fast, and I've got to set it up and shit, joy.
Here's hoping everything goes well.

Edit: Working great so far, there was an odd fuckup with the graphics that only took a simple reset, and I've successfully recovered my personal copy of Firefox, with extensions and bookmarks and all, joy!
Next, I gotta put my old 320gb HD in and keep it in there.

Edit: Here's a sprite I ripped from a game that I dumped myself, hooray for PC powerful enough to emulate 2d DS games.

Well, it seems my current computer has suddenly shit right up.
I can't turn the thing on now, after putting it into sleep mode it just won't turn on at all, fuck.

It's forced my hand, I had to buy the new computer I wanted NOW rather than later.
I was going to order the computer when I got the money but now I have to get it ASAP, which'll be Friday thankfully.

Until then, I've got to use my mum's old computer to get on the internet, thankfully I've got my portable firefox with a lot of my personal settings on it, not all of them though simply because some extensions or bookmarks would be too personal for a workplace or not compatible due to firewalls (E.G. Internet banking and shopping.)

Maybe if I'm lucky, I WILL be able to turn my old hunk of junk back on soon, I got lucky but put it back into sleep mode to see if it was a one-off error, big mistake. Otherwise, I don't think I can count on getting my personalised home firefox back, but at least I will still have all my flash projects, videos, music, pictures, documents, DS files and such safe on my other hard drive, which I'm just gonna put into my new computer, nice.

Edit: The system was due to be delivered on Friday, but didn't arrive.
I'll just have to wait until Monday now, great. At least I have the week off.

Edit: Parcelforce FUCKED UP, fucking Royal Mail package delivery.
They somehow "missorted" my package (that's not even a WORD) and the tracking page says it was refused by the addresse, refused by WHO?!

Sonic confirmed for Brawl.

Enough said.

This computer have served me well over the years, but it's time that I get an upgrade because I need something faster for my flash animation and graphics, and general computing lifestyle.

I've been looking to spend around £600 on a new computer, thanks to winning monthly 5th on August 2007 for SleepEasy and earning £113, as well as receiving regular EMA bonuses for attending college (£30 a week, with a recent £100 bonus) that goal is very much in site.
Even more so because my 18th birthday is coming up soon, I've asked for money just for this purpose.
I've been looking for a good system of course, 2gb of DDR ram and a good dual core processor, something that can really run Vista. Vista may be a spec hog but it's a nice system.

Anyhow, I've looked at Novatech.co.uk and found this system.

https://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/sp ecpage.html?PC-2004

It has that 2gb of RAM, 800Mhz which is nice and a Intel Core 2 Duo processor which is great.
It also has an Nvidia 8600GT 512mb graphics card which is superb, and I can get it with Vista Home Premium (because there's no reason to get Ultimate) for £533, which is even cheaper than I wanted, superb.

It's gonna be a while till I actually order this, I'm a few hundred short of course, but in the mean time does anyone else have any computer recommendations for a UK PC buyer?
And before you bring it up:

No, I want Vista because XP CANNOT utilize a duel core processor I'm afraid.
No, I don't want a Mac because they are not better at doing graphics (they USED to be years ago until graphics cards existed)
No, I do not want Linux, I want a comfortable environment, I've used Windows for years.
No, I am not going to pirate Vista.
No, I do not want a laptop because I do not find them comfortable.

If you've ever heard of WindowsBlinds, it's a skinning utility for Windows XP and Vista.
Ordinarily I'd prefer using Uxthemes, but NOBODY made a worthwhile Vista Uxtheme skin, at least not until it was broken by a windows update that is. (The problem actually lies in the skin files.)

Anyhow, I got Windows Blinds 5 a while ago, and I was entitled to version 6 which just came out, very nice.
Immediately there's a REALLY nice skin called Classic that comes packaged together, it comes in a icky yellow, and a REALLY AWESOME BLUE, it's actually coloured like XP but looks like Vista in some respects, eitherway it's really nice.
Initially the skin is too saturated, but thankfully you can modify the skin colours quite easily to your preferences, I reduce their richness and it looks awesome.
But what really takes the cake is that you can modify the transparency for the individual elements, the taskbar, rightclick menu, start menu and window frames, and really well. (And because I have Vista, I get blurring options!)

So after messing about with it, wow, you get a really awesome desktop, I'm going to enjoy this for a long time.
They did a great job with updating it, this nicely demonstrates that Vista can actually do some great graphical work from a third party.

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Today's Play History

Super Paper Mario
13:29

Super Paper Mario
08:23

Total Play Time
21:52

Let me put that into perspective.
In my timezone when I posted this, the time was 21:47.