Tuesday, June 12, 2007
*cue victory fanfare*
11:58 PM

I bought a game today...'cause I traded in Pokémon Diamond and some DDR game with a dance pad that I found in my dad's closet. The game I bought...


It's even the Collector's Edition, with a nice, but banged-up, metal case. Wooo!

After playing FFVI, I fell in love with Final Fantasy again. Before that, the last FF game I played was FFX a loooong time ago, back when I had that old crappy Emmerson TV with only an RF input.

I also managed to fix the "overscan" on my TV! I hated how my TV would always crop the image on the screen, and cut off vital parts of a video game. Like the health bars in a fighting game wouldn't entirely be on screen. The unison attack gauge in Tales of Symphonia didn't even show up when I played it! Now in FFXII, the bottom character in my party's Status Guages (HP and MP) were barely visible. I had had enough of this crap, so I went online and googled a bunch of terms that I thought would lead me to an answer. Eventually, something lead me to the service menu of my TV. I've always been wary of doing something with the service menu in a TV, 'cause I hear messing with it can mess up your TV. But I was desperate, and I figured if I messed up my TV, I'd tell my parents that it just broke all of a sudden and they'd buy me a new one. :P

But, I ended up messing with some settings, and now the cropping is gone. It's almost like a brand new TV! I still want an HDTV, but games look fine on this now, especially with S-Video input. Happy days.
Comments:

Blogger Danny G said:
Strange that you picked that game up. I'm actually playing it myself.....again.
However, I almost have a master game. I have all the best weapons, armor, and all hunts. I have just a few rare monsters and getting all character to lv. 99 to go. I'm only at 200 hours....whew!
So, even though there is no XBOX live achievements, I offer the challenge of beating my game save! BWHAHA!
Well, anyhoot, I had to brag on myself for this, and so I thought I'd share.
I expected you to trade Pokemon in eventually, but so soon?
So anyway, you should STAY in love with Final Fantasy...12 is good in its own way.
Oh, and my tv does the same thing..I'm sure you know this as much as you rag on it; maybe you can help fix mine too...or I'll get an HDTV like you....eventually...wish I could break mine and get a new one, lol.
Later.
 

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