Picked up some cheap games at Wal Mart. I saw Dragon Ball Z Burst Limit for $20 and Bleach The Blade of Fate for $10. Great deals so I snagged those.

Man, Yakuza is a great game. I really do hope we get Yakuza 3 in America even though I haven't beat the first one. But if Yakuza 2 is better than this amazing game then 3 must be a master piece.

Finally got my Japanese PSN ticket. I was playing Metal Gear Solid in the parking lot at work waiting for my car to warm up. Awesome. Also got the face plate, and installed it. I don't think it fits quite right but it's ok. It's better than having a giant crack. I'll eventually just buy a PSP 3000 or whatever PSP comes out after that. Oh well. I've also noticed that the only new games I want to buy are on the PSP. Well at least 5 compared to the two or three other games I would like to have for other systems. I probably won't get 3 out of those 5 I want for PSP as they're RPGs and those just take too damn long. Fucking RPGs taking a million years!

Also while running I was thinking about my hot babe girlfriend and video games. I was thinking how it's weird she likes Work Time Fun as that's a rather quirky game. Then I realized she's a casual gamer and likes casual games. That explains how she'll only play Wii Bowling and fighting games with me. Oh well.

Got my 8gb memory stick in the mail yesterday. Have everything transfered, now I just need to get that damn PSN card. I can't wait! I know it'll take forever since it's actually coming from Japan, but shit. I want it so bad. I'm still waiting for the new PSP face plate too, I think it's coming from China. Gosh I hate the waiting part!

Waiting really is the hardest part. Mail, why must you be so slow? I really want my japan PSN card and new memory stick!

Also I need some new AAA batteries, and a car charger for my PSP. That little FM transmitter can be powered by an external source and the AAA's are all ready dead. I accidentally threw away my PSP car charger like a year ago at work because the security guards are dicks. Actually the one lady offered to hold it at the gate but I had no idea what the charger was so I never went back for it. Months later I remembered what it was when I tried to find my PSP charger. Now a few more months later I need the damn thing. Oh well. They're just a couple bucks on amazon. So it won't be hard to replace, I've just got to use AAA's till then, luckily I've got a few rechargable AAA's.

I made the mistake of considering upgrading my ps3 HDD again. I mentioned to a friend at work that upgrading the HDD for the ps3 is better than the 360 because you can use any laptop harddrive instead of some proprietary crap. So naturally I wanted to see how much a 500gb HDD would run me. Turns out I can snag one for just over 100 dollars. That's not a bad price. About a year and a half ago I spent about $90 for my 120 GB HDD. So in a few paychecks, probably after the flip top for the ps2, I'll consider upgrading HDD's again and buying another external HDD case for my 120gb drive. Oh Why can't I resist spending on my sweet video gaming set up?

I got my FM transmitter for my PSP. It's pretty cool! Very useful in my car. I'm way to cheap to upgrade my state of the art tape deck. I need new speakers too, ones blown out but I'm too cheap to fix that too. Maybe I will now that I've actually got a cheap source of jams. I'm about to order an 8gb memory stick. They're only $40 over on www.newegg.com which is a pretty amazing price if you ask me. I guess I could wait a year and get 16gb for around the same price.

I also registered a Japanese PSN account. For some reason the Yakuza 3 demo wouldn't work. It would play a cutscene then go to a loading screen then freeze there forever. Pain in the ass. So I just deleted it. I played the Japanese demo for MGS4, the voices are cool. I've ordered a PSN card from www.play-asia.com when I get that in the mail I'm going to download MGS. Which is another reason I want the 8gb memory stick. As things are I don't have enough memory for my rockin tunes and games. So I can't wait to play MGS on my PSP and in a different language. Also being able to play MGS without using discs will be nice, I play through that game all the damn time so it'll save me SEVERAL seconds.

Then in a few more paychecks I'm going to get a ps2 flip top and a copy of swap magic from this Canadian website. That's another $40. The plan there is I'm going to order MGS2 and MGS3 from Japan. Then I'll work on collecting all the Japanese MGS games. Since I don't want to mod a ps1 to play imports I'll settle for the PSN version. Then I'll get all the PS2 MGS games. I'm not sure about MGS2. I don't know if I want to get both MGS2SOL and MGS2:S. MGS2:S has the English dub then your choice of English or Japanese subtitles. I should just get both to try and have the most complete collection possible hahaha. Then the PSP and PS3 MGS games have no region coding so no need to mod anything there.

I just registered a Japanese PSN account to download some demos, as well as Ad Hoc party. My main reason for creating the account though is to download Metal Gear Solid. I was thinking my MGS collection is pretty decent. Having all the American release Metal Gear games, but what could make it better? I know having all the Japanese MGS games! So instead of modding a ps1 and buying the discs for MGS I decided I'd cop out and just get the PSN version, with the benefit of being able to play it on my PSP. Which is totally bad ass! Then I will however mod my Slim PS2 to play Japanese games and buy MGS2 Sons of Liberty or Substance (Substance has the English dub so that's conveniant, but if I'm going for the Japanese-ness of it I just might get Sons of Liberty) and MGS3. Then importing MGS4 is easy because there's no region code on the PS3. About damn time game companies wisened up.

I stopped by the used game store and picked up a Sega CD game I'd been eying. I couldn't obtain it in a more dubious fashion so I bought it for $5 bucks. Not so bad. I really liked Wing Commander III on PS1. I was so hooked I actually overheated my playstation. It was the only time it ever happened. Plus I remember playing the SNES version years ago, which I also saw there for $2 more. Weird. So now I actually have a real Sega CD game. Complete with case and well worn manual. Whoever owned it originally must have loved this game. The register man commented "Wing Commander! Good game!" All good signs.

I just ordered an FM transmitter for my PSP. I do use my PSP in my car to listen to MP3's quite a bit. Even with headphones it's hard to hear it while drivng highway speeds. There's some mixed views about this product but overall it seems like most people are pretty happy with it so I figure I'll buy one and give it a shot. After shipping and everything it was $9, not to bad. I'm really getting into my PSP again. I still need to get that God of War game, I can't believe I still don't have it.

PSP is one of those systems that I love it for all its features but I'm just not to happy with the games. I'd be crazy about it if the Metal Gear Solid games were handled better. The controlls are ass. When Snake Eater came out people bitched about the lack of camera control, I dealt with it but agreed that a camera control would help. Now with two analog sticks that makes a ton of sense. They went and used the same engine on the PSP which has one analog nub which sucks, real hard. They should have used the original Snake Eater engine and planned the game to use that accordingly for the PSP game as you have no analog sticks let alone two. Using the D pad to move your guy then a nub on the same side to control the camera at the same time is impossible. If there were two nubs or the nub was on the right side it might have worked slightly better but meh. It would have been better to develop the game using the older static overhead camera and planning the level design around that concept.

Anyway I've been dicking around with Metal Gear Solid Portable Ops+ again. I never unlocked Raiden, something I really want to do. I just want to run around as Raiden with the sword and sword things up. Actually I wish the PS3 had an option UMD drive. So you could play PSP games with a dual shock controller. Think along the lines of a Gameboy Player or Super Gameboy. You could just plug in a UMD drive into one of the USB ports. Or they could make the next PSP output to a TV and make it compatable with the Dual Shock 3. That should be entirely possible. I play my handhelds at home the most anyway. The only time I play them away from my bed room is when I'm taking a shit, and I'm sure that's true for most people.