Author: John

Animal Crossing (GameCube)

I managed to rid myself of this addiction about 11 months ago. Sadly, all the guys on uk.games.video.handheld who imported the US Nintendo DS version have been doing my nut in. I’m not importing it because I just know it’ll eat all my spare time and I already have $hilariouslylargemadeupnumber games to play. I’m waiting

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Phoenix Wright – Ace Attorney (Nintendo DS)

Aha! The plot thickens, but some aspects are beginning to become clear. I’ve now finished the second round of investigation, and am ready for the second day in court. Firstly, I spent a while interrogating-by-proxy some demented old bloke who only seems able to communicate via his parrot. He’s going to be testifying as well.

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Phoenix Wright – Ace Attorney (Nintendo DS)

Well that was….. odd. So, yesterday’s star witness has some information that she wants to trade. Yes, trade. The thing is, the lake where the murder happened has been all over the press as the home of some kind of Nessie style sea monster called Gourdy. Yesterday’s witness wants to find said monster – so

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De Leek!

I have a resource leak on one of our live servers. It’s not seriously serious, but it’s certainly seriously annoying. The box in question is running a dozen or so pretty busy services and has an uptime of a shade over 577 days. And something has it 270K into the swap. Not a big issue,

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Phoenix Wright – Ace Attorney (Nintendo DS)

Just had time for a quick go today because it was really cold in the car. Edinburgh isn’t the best place for semi-outdoor activities. Anyway, I managed to bail Maya our of prison (it’s a long story) – or rather Edgeworth did. I had a quick snoop about the crime scene and had a word

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Phoenix Wright – Ace Attorney (Nintendo DS)

Phew! I’ve survived the first day of trial, but only just. Ol’ Edgeworth was a walk in the park compared to Hell-fiend von Karma. I’ve managed to expose the star witness as a bit of a crank, but there’s a new witness (who I know nothing about) giving evidence in the morning. Gaaah. Still, got

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Phoenix Wright – Ace Attorney (Nintendo DS)

Right – day one’s investigation is over and I have accumulated quite a pile of (admittedly circumstantial evidence). I’ve also managed to uncover a witness who is likely to be more of a hindrance than a help. There are elements of the case so far which are related to incidents in earlier cases, so I

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Phoenix Wright – Ace Attorney (Nintendo DS)

Case 3 CL0S0RED! (Ahem). Well, it was all very unexpected in the end, and I don’t think Edgeworth is very happy with me but all’s fair in obscure-japanese-courtroom-games, it seems. So, trial 4 unlocked – I wonder what wierd and wonderful treats will be ahead of me in this one? Trial 3 was tough –

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Phoenix Wright – Ace Attorney (Nintendo DS)

Gah! It’s getting hard now! I’m on the last day of the trial and the witness I’m questioning is…… unhelpful. The overall difficulty has taken a hike as well – evidence is a lot less direct now (for example, using an item in one state as evidence about an item in a different state –

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