Just got this on aliexpress and it cost less that what is described in the video, mine was 14 bucks.

Believe it or not there are still some gamecube games I'd love to play and this might be the easiest way to do that.

This is pretty interesting. NVIDIA has been developing, or at least help develop tools that would allow modders to add RTX lighting to almost any game. At least it started out that way, but soon became a tool one can use to exchange assets and textures as well.

Apparently, and this is a very Layman's way of saying this, the tool is able to do this by "interrupting" the drawing of assets, lighting and textures and replacing them with whatever someone wants before they are drawn on screen.

It's sounds overtly complicated, but this video shows precisely how easy the system actually works.

You will need RTXRemix and an Nvidia card of course.

This is pretty cool. Someone cut up the wii's Gamecube mobo to its bare minimum to function correctly, added 2 or 3 microboard and housed it in an adorable mini gamecube case.

I have a GC and would be very willing to get a micro console like this. I've been thinking about modding my current gamecube to red sd cards instead of discs since the optical drive will eventually die.

This channel deals with retro console mods. It's done pretty well and can has given step by step instructions for different mods.

Wow, that' ambitious. It's like they're throwing everything in there, even the drain attached to the kitchen sink.

Things to note:
3 main characters that you can change between during any point in the game. During or between missions, watching their family life, running away from cops, on bounty hunts, doesn't matter.
Seems like you'll be able to live in this world, one of the characters has a (dysfunctional) family. During off parts you can go play sports or go to the beach or hang-gliding. Even go shopping.
Looks like everything is customizable. Want new rims on that shit box you just stole from a poor family? Sure. Want to buy designer clothes for yourself? Sure. I'm pretty sure you'll be able to upgrade family man's house too.
Plan missions yourself and decide what members of the team you take in. I'm not sure if this is plan them from scratch or they give you two options (guns blazing or sneak in quietly) and you choose one of the two.

At any rate, the game looks huge and this idea of planning your missions and switching between characters seems very cool to me.

My favourite part: After violently throwing someone into a trailer he turns to the fat lady and she says:
"Hey, how've you been?"
"Oh wonderful, and you?"
"Somewhere stuck between joyful and peachy"

Here's hoping it comes to PC.

So Andy and I were talking yesterday about Minecraft and two things came up, Minecraft³ and bringing two maps together to have 1 server.
I'll tackle the Minecraft³ first.

Minecraft³

All the intormation and more can be found in the Reddit post in the Minecraft subreddit.
Minecraft³, or minecraft cubed as I like to call it, is a mod that pretty much turns the game on its head. It adds so much to the game that basically makes it a new game.
Almost dynamic weapons, new monsters, new biomes, variants of the different monsters that are already in the game, a new perk system, new leveling system, more loot, new dungeons, bosses in the dungeons and built in shops with currency from killing mobs.

Strictly speaking weapons and mobs now. Tools will have different levels and items will have different rarities. Weapons will be procedurally generated, that is to say that they weapon system will be more like Diablo's. Just an example of the different variants and different affects each weapon could potentially have, here's a couple of videos.

The biomes will also change a bit, they're working on adding content to the ocean biome so it's more interesting to play around and explore. On top of that they're adding a couple new biomes, only one has kind of been shown.

For the mobs, here's a perfect video of the different types of precedurally generated mobs you'll be able to find.

And here's an image of some other kind of new mobs.


There's so much more to this ambitious mod, I'm hoping it gets released.

Stitching or combining two minecraft servers together

Did a little research and it looks like it may be possible. Someone released a tool called MCmerge. Basically what it does is take the two maps and puts them side by side and then puts a river through the middle and smooths the edges so that it looks more natural.

Here's the tool.



and should end up looking something like this:

Andy, want to try it? I'm very curious to see how it'll turn out.

Ok, here's the official Minecraft post for showing off what you're working on, have finished or general ideas or cool mods you like.

I'll start the thread with this: Tropical Mod

unfortunately it'll never happen because it's not part of bukkit so will not mix well.

What I'm working on right now is basically connecting my three or four places to spawn with a road way or rail system. For that not in the know, our server is pr0ph3t.jestservers.com. In the process I found this:


I'm also using this:

It's the Wind Waker texture pack for minecraft!

Which can be downloaded here: Download link

I'll have more pictures later.

probably the best use of an xbox i've seen.
from Engadget


and the video they speak of